Chapter 1 Quiz

What three communication skills do you need to balance and adapt to be a successful public speaker?

Conversation, composition, performance

Which of the following best describes public speaking?

Good speakers are made, not born

The concept of the social construction of meaning states that:

People make meaning together, and meaning varies depending on context.

Which of the following is NOT a common public speaking misconception?

Speaking will always be easy when you are first learning it.

____________________ can enhance a public speaker's learning experience

All of the above

Invention, organization, style, delivery, and memory are known as the five areas of study, or __________________________, that combine to form effective speaking skills.

Canons of rhetoric

Marla just received feedback through a performance evaluation at work and her supervisor informed her that she needs to improve her public speaking skills. Which stage of skill learning best applies to Marla's situation?

Conscious incompetence

Ethos, one category of persuasive appeals in the rhetorical process, refers to the content of the speech and the feelings evokes.

False

Which theoretical foundation of public speaking states that communication is never complete until feedback has been received and interpreted?

Information transmission theories

Identify the factors that can help people overcome their inhibitions about speaking in public

Practice and coaching

___________________ is an event in which a group of people agree that one person will direct the event as a speaker.

Public speaking

___________________ describes the rekindling of a preference for intense, visceral, immediate kinds of communication.

Secondary orality

Which of the following scenarios will likely lead someone to develop good public speaking skills?

The speaker developed and interest in public speaking during his school days and practiced his public speaking skills.

Meaning is created through social interaction with others

True

Public speaking requires understanding how a mutuality of concern between speakers and listeners is central to the effective communication of a message.

True