Speech Final (Previous Quizzes)

________ involves delivering a specific message to an in-person audience.

Dyadic communication

A speaker's anxiety is heightened when he or she perceives the audience as negative or neutral to the speech.

False

Thinking of public speaking as a threat to personal growth can be part of positive thinking about public speaking.

False

____________ is speech that is potentially harmful to a person's reputation at work or in the community and might be illegal if spoken with a reckless disregard for the truth.

Slander

Because the entire speech rests on it, the thesis statement must be clearly stated in the speech.

True

Imagining your speech as a conversation can help you relax about public speaking.

True

Pinpointing the stage at which you become anxious when speaking publicly can help decrease your anxiety.

True

"Have you ever been to a professional hockey game?" is an example of

a closed-ended question

The thesis statement, the theme or central idea of a speech, should be expressed as

a single, declarative sentence

All communication events include:

a source and a message

When preparing a speech, the speaker's first task is to select

a topic and purpose to the audience and occasion

Nancy was practicing her speech when she became overwhelmed with anxiety. She decided to simply allow herself to be anxious for a few minutes, then decided it was time to be confident about all the work she had done and resume her rehearsal. Nancy was using the anxiety-management strategy known as

anxiety stop-time technique

When we refer to the noise in the communication process, we are referring to...

any interference with the message

Our general evaluations of people, ideas, objects, or events are our

attitudes

When narrowing a topic, the speaker need not consider ...

audience seating arrangements

Keeping the needs, values, attitudes, and wants of your listeners clearly focus in being ...

audience-centered

To generate ideas for topics, use word association; its a kind of ___________ technique.

brainstorming

In which part of a speech should the speaker restate the thesis and reiterate how the main points confirm it?

conclusion

Outlines are based on the principle of

coordination and subordination

Legal protection afforded the creators of original literacy and artistic works is called

copyright

Which of the following is one of the five cannons of rhetoric?

delivery

Feeling ________ is one reason many people are uncomfortable about public speaking.

different

A person's respectful bearing and conduct is called

dignity

Invention refers to ...

discovering evidence and arguments you will use to make your case

Material that is common knowledge

does not require a citation

Communication between two people is called

dyadic communication

How many demographic characteristics are typically considered in the analysis of speech audiences?

eight

Listening distractions are

external and internal

Construction noise or competing conversations are examples of

external distractions

If a speech is informative, its thesis statement represents what you are going to prove in the address. True or false

false

Visualization is not an effective technique to reduce speaker nervousness.

false

If you ask survey respondents to respond to questions with a limited choice of answers, you are asking what type of questions?

fixed-alternative

Active listening is

focused and purposeful

The _________ speech purpose answers the question, "What is my objective in speaking on this topic to this audience on this occasion?"

general

When selecting a speech topic, a speaker should first consider which of the following as a guide?

his or her interests

Under what circumstances should the speaker begin by showing the topic's relevance to the audience, and then relate the topic to ideas and experiences about which the audience holds a positive attitude?

if the topic of the speech is new to the listeners

Benefits of public speaking do not include ...

improving hand-eye coordination

Socioeconomic status (SES) includes

income, occupation, education

Listeners rarely pay attention to

information that is unrelated to their interests

The purpose of a(n) ______ speech is to increase the audience's understanding and awareness of a topic.

informative

An incorruptible speaker, or one who will not compromise the truth, possesses

integrity

Daydreaming and fatigue are examples of

internal distractions

Feeling different when delivering a speech

makes a speaker believe no one is interested in what they have to say.

In this form of communication, the receiver is physically removed from the messenger, and there is little or no interaction between the speaker and the audience.

mass communication

In order to deal with a sudden distraction while you are giving a speech, you might

minimize your response and proceed as soon as possible.

Values are

our most enduring judgments about what is good and bad in life

Hate speech is offensive communication that is most often directed against

people's radical, ethnic, religious, gender or other characteristics

Tools a speaker can use to analyze an audience include all of the following except

personal opinions

Presenting a "cut-and-paste" of someone else's material as your own is called

plagiarism

Scriptwriters tend to

plan what they, not the speaker, will say next

Maureen began to feel nervous once she began organizing and writing her speech. Which type of anxiety did Maureen experience?

preparation anxiety

A speaker's general fear or anxiety associated with either actual or anticipated communication to an audience is known as

public-speaking anxiety

Paying attention to information that is important to us, being interested in information that touches our own experiences and backgrounds, and sorting and filtering new information based on what we already know are key elements of

selective perception

If a source used in a speech requires in written form, it also

should be acknowledged orally

A speech should be practiced at least how many times?

six

Which of the following is the process a message goes through when it is received and interpreted?

source -> encoding -> receiver -> decoding

Which kind of outline is usually brief and contains key words or phrases?

speaking

The ___________ speech purpose expresses exactly what the speaker wishes the audience to get from the speech.

specific

The ________ is a precise statement of what you want the audience to learn or do as a result of your speech.

specific purpose

When giving classroom presentations, what can you do to avoid boring your audience and raising tension in the classroom?

steer clear of overused and trivial topics

To establish a feeling of identification with the audience,

stress your commonalities

In an outline, what kind of points support the main points?

subordinate

When actively listening, a person should

take note of the speaker's key points

An ethical speaker is conscious of _______ values.

the audience's

Anne gives a speech to her classmates about categories of computer games. The general purpose of Anne's speech is ...

to inform

A speaker who is both honest and dependable has the quality of

trustworthiness

An effective speech should be organized around _______ main points.

two or three

Active listeners

usually set listening goals and listen for main ideas

Supporting material illustrates main points by ________ the speaker's main ideas.

verifying

An audience-centered approach means

you consider your audience in every phase of the speech preparation process