Mid Term Public Speaking

39 - When gauging your audience's disposition toward the speech topic, you should take into account their

All of The above

4 Critical thinking includes:

All of the Above

44 - Most library catalogues allow you to search for books by

All the Above

19 - Listening for pleasure or enjoyment is called ____________ listening.

Appreciative

41 - Mayor Kathleen Baldwin has been asked to address the Wakefield Community Association about the issue of constructing a swimming pool in the neighborhood. The most important factor Baldwin should consider when analyzing her audience is probably its

Attitude towards topic

48 - If you need information about a specific person, you should consult a ____________ such as Who's Who, Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, Notable American Women, or Contemporary Black Biography

Bibliographical Aid

27 - ____________ is a method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas

Brainstorming

43 - The ____________ is the key to finding materials in the library

Catalogue

31 - The ____________ is a one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the main points of a speech.

Central Idea

21 - Listening to understand the message of a speaker is called ____________ listening

Comprehensive Listening

37 - According to your textbook, the tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being is called

Egocentrism

20 - ____________ is listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.

Empathetic Listening

10 - Because speechmaking is a form of power, it carries with it heavy ____________ responsibilities.

Ethical

7 - ____________ is the belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures

Ethnocentrism

12 - Because listeners recognize that public speakers are promoting their self-interest, it is acceptable for speakers to alter evidence.

False

16 - It is only necessary for a speaker to identify his or her source when quoting verbatim rather than when paraphrasing

False

17 Protecting a speaker's freedom to express his or her ideas implies agreement with those ideas.

False

24 - Skilled listeners try to remember a speaker's every word

False

3 Listeners usually realize how tense a speaker is.

False

36 - Adapting your message to the needs of a particular audience means that you must inevitably compromise your beliefs

False

6 - Most successful speakers do not experience stage fright.

False

5 - The knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes through which each listener filters a message make up the listener's

Frame of Referance

15 - Gabrielle, a physiology major, waited until the last minute to begin preparing her persuasive speech. When her friend Ken learned that she was panicking over the assignment, he gave her the outline of a speech he had delivered in class the previous semester. Gabrielle used the speech and presented it as her own

Gabrielle is guilty of global plagiarism because she took a speech entirely from a single source and passed it off as her own

35 - The primary purpose of speechmaking is to

Gain a desired response from listeners

38 - The process of creating a bond with listeners by emphasizing common values, goals, and experiences is called __________ by communication scholars.

Identification

28 - When your general purpose is to ____________, you act as a teacher or lecturer

Inform

42 - Dr. Kristin Lutz is preparing an informative talk about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome for an audience of expectant parents. The most important factor Dr. Lutz should consider when analyzing her audience is probably its

Knowledge of the topic

13 - ____________ is the use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups.

Name-Calling

14 - According to your textbook, stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own is called

Patchwork-Plagarism

45 - If you want to find journal or magazine articles on your speech topic, you should consult a(n)

Periodical Database

29 - When you want to change or structure the attitudes of your audience, your general purpose is to ____________.

Persuade

47 - Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases are all examples of _______.

Reference Work

40 - Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers are called ____________ questions

Scale

8 - Avoiding ethnocentrism means that public speakers should

Show respect for cultures of all people

30 - The ____________ is a single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in her or his speech

Specific Purpose Statement

32 - "To persuade my audience that media violence is a major cause of violence in society" is an example of a(n)

Specific Purpose Statement

2 ____________ is anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.

Stage Fright

33 - Identify the flaw in the following central idea for a speech: "Something should be done about global warming."

Too Vague

1. The art of public speaking has been taught for thousands of years

True

11 - Even though there can be gray areas when it comes to assessing a speaker's goals, it is still necessary to ask ethical questions about those goals

True

18 - People spend more time listening than in any other communicative activity.

True

22 - Listening and critical thinking are so closely allied that training in listening is also training in how to think.

True

26 - When business managers are asked to rank-order the communication skills most crucial to their jobs, they usually rank listening number one

True

34 - The central idea for a speech should be stated as a full sentence

True

46 - You should never cite an article in your speech on the basis of the abstract alone.

True

49 - Surfing the World Wide Web is an excellent way to find information for your speeches

True

23 - The two kinds of listening most closely tied to critical thinking are

comprehensive listening and critical listening

9 - While listening to a speech about gun control, Scott thought back to his experiences as an intern with the police department and decided that the speaker was knowledgeable about the subject. Scott was

filtering the message through his frame of reference

50 - A _________ is a list, compiled early in the research process, of books and articles that look as if they might contain helpful information about a speech topic

preliminary bibliography

25 - The first step to improving your listening skills is to

take listening seriously