Public Speaking Chapter 6
One of the major demographic traits of audiences is interest in the speaker's topic.
False
Unlike beginning speakers, experience speakers have little need for audience analysis.
False
Even when listeners pay close attention, they don't process a speaker's message exactly as the speaker intended.
True
Gender, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, and group membership are all factors to consider when conducting a demographic audience analysis.
True
Knowing how the physical setting might affect your listeners' receptivity to your ideas is an important factor in situational audience analysis.
True
The size of the audience is one of the factors to be considered in situational audience analysis.
True
Adapting to audiences is one of the easiest tasks facing beginning speakers.
False
Because men and women in the United States share a much broader range of experiences and they once did, gender is no longer a significant factor in demographic audience analylsis.
False
Being audience-centered means your primary purpose as a speaker is to gain a desired response from the audience.
True
Although most of the process of audience adaptation occurs as part of preparing a speech, a speaker may still need to adapt his or her remarks to the audience during the presentation.
True