Quiz 1- spch145

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Which of the following is considered a good delivery pace for a presentation?

150-175 wpm

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

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 the following is the textbook definition of an argument?

An assertion backed by reasoning and evidence

What four parts does the textbook recommend you include in your introduction?

Attention material, statement of topic or purpose, your connection to the topic, and a preview.

When dealing with public reasons for a policy change and the private motivations of change agents, which is more important to enacting a policy change

Both are important and necessary elements of a policy change argument

Which of the following is the most important aspect of good vocal quality?

Clarity

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

Command

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

Essentially every image, text, sound, and video that has not specifically been released for public use by its legal owner.

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

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

Instrumental values

Milton Rokeach classified intellect as what kind of value?

Intellect

What does your audience need to know about sources you use or cite in your online communication?

Name of the source and the source's credibility

Which of the following is true about using numbers when making reasoned arguments to a public audience?

Numbers only matter if they connect to the values or emotions of your audience.

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.

Which of the following does not increase most people's perceptions of the severity or likelihood of the negative outcome of a choice?

Perception of the potentially positive outcome of the choice as being highly desired.

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

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

What are the three keys to successfully responding to questions in a live interaction?

Rephrase the question, give a substantive answer, and keep it conversational

According to the textbook, which of the following is not an important element of preparing an interview?

Script out your questions

What are the four primary components of the stock issues model of policy argument?

Significant harms, inherency, plan, and solvency

What does the textbook call the evidence that your policy proposal can overcome the inherency and significantly reduce the harms?

Solvency

Having multiple points that are smaller dimension of a larger main point represents what principle of organization?

Superordination and subordination

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

Terminal values

What does an audience need to see to feel motivating positive aspiration toward an accomplishment?

That others they identify with have accomplished it, that the audience deserves that accomplishment, and that they have the capacity to achieve this accomplishment

What is the key element to a successful argument from example?

The audience must believe that the examples are representative of the larger group

Research demonstrates which of the following to be true about multi-tasking?

The human brain is incapable of true multi-tasking, instead it tries to time-share, switching back and forth between tasks, doing both tasks badly

How can Snopes.com and Factcheck.org can be helpful in your research?

The provide listings of fake news sources and claims proven to be false or misleading

How did the French philosopher Michel Foucault define ethics?

The rules one fits oneself out with for living.

What does it mean to "give imagery a turn?"

Use imagery with movement or changes to make a point or trigger an emotion

What is the definition of a significant harm in the stock issues model of policy argument?

What is wrong, deficient, or imperfect now that we need a policy change to fix

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

What your audience believes makes for high competence

Which of the following is the best definition for the ancient Greek word ethos?

Your dwelling place or how you live the whole of your life

Which three parts of a narrative are most important for creating audience identification or disidentification?

character, time, place

What does antithesis refer to?

pairing opposite terms

If I say that eating a particular vegetable decreases your risk of cancer by 5%, which of the following is required to understand the actual percentage change in your risk?

relative or absolute change

What does anaphora refer to?

repetition of phrases

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

repetition of sounds

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


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