SPCH 145

What three things are required to evoke the emotion of fear from an audience?

A bad or painful event, coming in the future, that is looming or near

When using anger to mobilize an audience which of the following should you provide them to produce action?

A pathway or means to receive compensation or recover their perceived loss

which of the following most accurately describes online communication

All online communication can be traced, can be made public, and may be permanently archived.

Which of following is not an effective indicator of confidence?

Being critical or negative toward others

Which of the following is not one of the three elements of ethos (credibility)?

Command

What principle is demonstrated by the McGurk effect?

Cross-modal processing (that the brain processes our sensory input by merging multiple senses, not as individual senses)

What kinds of materials on the internet are protected by copyright law?

Essentially every image, text, sound, and video if it is on a .com domain.

When looking for which values to express to your audience, which of the following is the best strategy?

Find a connection between what you genuinely hold as high values and what the audience holds as high values

How much of a person would be in frame when shooting a video at personal distance?

From the shoulders or chest up

Who needs to give permission for you to legally record a Skype conversation, Google Hangout, or similar online communication?

Generally, it is safest to assume that all participants who are being recorded must give consent.

What are the elements that help and audience to feel sympathy for a victim?

Identification with the victim, immediate suffering, significant suffering, undeserved suffering, and a perception of higher status than the victim

Milton Rokeach classified intellect as what kind of value?

Instrumental

What should you not do when receiving criticism?

Judge the value of the criticism quickly when first received

Which of the following most accurately describes how different audiences perceive different values?

Most audiences recognize the same core values but prioritize them differently.

What does the inverted-U hypothesis tells us about the relationship between anxiety and performance?

Peak performance tends to occur at a mid-range of anxiety, with low performance correlating to both high anxiety and low anxiety.

If you are using positive self-talk, what does the research indicate makes it more effective?

Present-tense, said aloud, and said with passion.

How did the French philosopher Michel Foucault define ethics?

The rules one fits oneself out with for living.

What does current neuroscience research tell us about what happens when we engage in repeated behaviors or repeatedly play at being a particular kind of person?

We are building neural pathways that make it more likely we will repeat those behaviors and become that kind of person.

When establishing your competence in your online communication, which of the following is most important?

What your audience believes makes for high competence

Opening my eyes wide and raising both eyebrows while saying "Yes!" is an example of what kind of nonverbal function?

accentuation

Shaking my head "no" while saying "yes" is an example of what kind of nonverbal function?

contradiction

What are the four most important elements when building an audience avatar?

goals values fears and challenges

What does antithesis refer to?

pairing opposite terms

What do alliteration, assonance, and consonance all commonly refer to?

repetition of sound

Which of the following is most effective for helping yourself to be a more attentive listener and overcome your own waning attention?

taking notes and actively paraphrasing what you are hearing into your own words

A video on the history of public speaking has three main parts: 1. Public speaking in the American revolution, 2. Public speaking in the Civil War, and 3. Public Speaking in World War II. What kind of organizational pattern is this video using?

temporal

What kind of values are considered good because they can accomplish something else, rather than good in and of themselves?

terrminal