Speech Final
A lawyer urging a jury to acquit her client is an example of informative speaking.
False
As your textbook explains, focusing on a speaker's delivery and personal appearance is an excellent way to strengthen your listening skills.
False
Concentrating on the target audience means that a persuasive speaker can ignore the rest of the audience.
False
Hearing and listening are identical.
False
Physical attractiveness and charisma are the most important factors affecting a speaker's credibility.
False
Unlike testimony, which can easily be quoted out of context, statistics are difficult to manipulate for biased purposes.
False
"To inform my audience how to create their own Web pages" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about a process.
True
Acceptable testimony can include either statements from recognized experts or from ordinary people with special expertise on the topic.
True
As your textbook explains, you need to make sure that the statistics you use in your speeches come from reliable sources.
True
Even though a persuasive speaker's goal is to influence the audience's beliefs or actions, she or he still has an ethical obligation to present evidence fairly and accurately.
True
Examples are particularly effective as supporting materials because they help get the audience involved in a speech.
True
If the specific purpose of your informative speech is to recount the history of an event, you will usually arrange the speech in chronological order.
True
Of all the kinds of public speaking, persuasion is the most complex and the most challenging.
True
One of the major barriers to effective communication is that the brain can process words much faster than a speaker can talk.
True
People need effective listening skills in almost all occupations
True
Persuasion is the process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions.
True
Persuasive speakers should aim to construct speeches that are both convincing and ethically sound.
True
Research indicates that evidence is usually more persuasive when it is stated in specific rather than general terms.
True
Supporting materials that are used to prove or disprove something are called evidence.
True
Taking notes on a speaker's key points and supporting material will help improve your listening ability and retention.
True
Terminal credibility is the credibility of the speaker at the end of the speech.
True
The three basic types of supporting materials discussed in your textbook are examples, statistics, and testimony
True
What many teachers refer to as source credibility was called ethos by Aristotle.
True
When giving an informative speech, you should think about ways to relate your topic to the audience in the body of the speech as well as the introduction.
True
Your textbook discusses four kinds of informative speeches: speeches about objects, concepts, processes, and events.
True
