Comm 1010 Midterm Questions

What is an alternative to ending a speech with "thank you"?

A call to action

Communication

A process through which you send messages to and receive messages from others.

What is a speech genre?

A set of expectations related to the speaking context

In which speaking situation would a declaration of faith be appropriate?

A speech at a political demonstration

What is the relationship between form and genre?

A widely recognized form of a given culture is a genre.

What is audience disposition?

An audience's feelings about you, your topic, and the occasion for your speaking

What is the basic rule of grooming and dressing for public speaking?

Avoid standing out from the crowd.

Which element of the audience is the easiest to change?

Beliefs

What kind of word choices should you avoid?

Biased Language

Which is a good guideline to follow when designing and using presentation aids?

Bigger graphics are better.

What is the relationship between jargon and slang?

Both jargon and slang exclude some members of your audience from understanding what is being said.

What are the three genres that are most basic for us today?

Celebratory, informative, and persuasive

What is the relationship between civic engagement and civil disobedience?

Civil disobedience is a form of civic engagement.

What is a formal way a speaker can get information about an audience?

Conduct a survey of audience members.

What is one way to choose an informative topic?

Considering the reason for your speech

What concerns thinking about the kinds of support you can use for a speech given the situations for your speech?

Contextual reasoning

The ancient Greeks described the word techne as "rhetoric." What is a more modern translation?

Craft

What is one of the five strategies for informative speeches?

Description

How can a speaker manage tone in delivery?

Dress appropriately for the setting.

Active Listening

Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.

Active listening

Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.

Which technique is commonly used in speech transitions?

Enumeration

What were the three basic genres of public speaking for Aristotle and his colleagues in ancient Greece?

Epideictic, forensic, and deliberative

Which is one of the basic functions of an introduction?

Establish goodwill

Which is one of the three elements of ethos, or a speaker's character?

Expertise

How can you cultivate goodwill when speaking?

Express your concern for the audience's well-being as individuals.

Which is an example of nonverbal communication?

Facial Expression

What should you consider when adapting your word choices to suit your audience?

Familiarity, community, and formality

History of public speaking

Gorgias compares public speaking to the power of persuasive speaking to spell binding and witchcraft; Moral character "Isocrates" public speaking is not a craft, but taught with ethics

What is the difference between listening and hearing?

Hearing is a physical event; listening involves attention.

Which contemporary genre corresponds to the past?

Informative

Which of the following questions can help you determine the credibility or reliability of an online source?

Is the information timely and comprehensive? What are the author's credentials?

Which describes one of the three guidelines that can encourage audience retention of your informative speech?

Make your speech unique.

Which is an element of the study of vocalics?

Modulation

What are gestures?

Movements of the head, hands, or arms to communicate an idea or a feeling

What is one part of a traditional speech conclusion?

Note of Finality

According to Freud, our most basic desire as humans is to be loved and to identify with others. What speech preparation technique can help a speaker create moments of identification with their audience?

Perform audience analysis.

What would be a good suggestion for a way to reduce speech anxiety?

Practice

What is the relationship between public speaking and democracy

Public speaking is valued in democracies.

Which is one of the four steps of active listening?

Receiving and attending

Which key demographic category can be harder to determine than others?

Religious belief

In what order are the four basic steps of speech preparation correctly carried out?

Research, Organize, Rehearse, Deliver

Speech preparation and delivery

Research, organize, practice, and deliver

What is the difference between response-ability and responsibility?

Response-ability is a tendency; responsibility is a set of rules.

Which is a device or technique you can use for an attention getter?

Rhetorical question

Which is a good general guideline for a research interview?

Secure recording permissions.

Which is an element of the setting that could influence the audience?

Size of the presentation space

What is the primary difference between speaking to inform and speaking to persuade?

Speaking to inform aims to give the audience something; speaking to persuade aims to change something about the audience.

Which is a basic type of organizational pattern for speeches?

Temporal

What is form?

The activation and satisfaction of expectations in audiences

What should you know before you decide to violate the expectations of a speech genre?

The conventions of the speech genre

Selective Perception

The phenomenon that people often pay the most attention to things they already agree with and interpret them according to their own predispositions.

Selective Exposure

The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.

Feedback

The receiver's response to a message

What is style?

The relationship between what you say and how you say it

How does a thesis statement relate to the specific purpose statement of a speech?

The thesis statement often overlaps with the purpose statement.

According to the "magic number of memory," how many main points should your speech include?

Three

What is the main purpose of a speaking outline?

To create notes and cues for delivering your actual speech

Which is a function of presentation aids?

To encourage retention

What is a reason for adding supporting material to a speech?

To make a speech more compelling

Which of the following is a general purpose for giving a speech?

To persuade

What refers to the emotional quality or character of human expression?

Tone

Which element of the audience is the hardest to change?

Values

What is a question you should you ask yourself when selecting a speech topic?

What is the speaking situation?

Which is one of the three "hecks" of digital researching?

Who the heck paid for it

Values

a connection or feeling

Misunderstanding

a failure to understand

Selective Listening

a listening style in which the receiver responds only to messages that interest him or her

Paraphase

a restatement of a written work in which the meaning is expressed in other words

Response-ability

ability to wisely and critically respond to the persuasion you encounter and to make wise choices and ethical decisions when you both process and craft persuasion

Noise

anything that interferes with, distorts, or slows down the transmission of information

Techne

art, skill "rhetoric"

Outlining a speech before you write it helps you

clarify your main speech points.

Gestures are important for speaking because they

communicate even more meaning than speech.

Fear of public speaking

communication apprehension and speech anxiety; tend to feel anxiety due to lack of experience; speech anxiety can be reduced through positive thinking and visualization

What is expertise associated with in the context of public speaking?

credibility

Extemporaneous Speaking

delivering a well-developed, well-organized, carefully rehearsed speech without having memorized exact wording

A speech should be researched when you

doubt the validity of an assumption or claim.

Contextual reasoning is important for developing supporting materials for a speech because it allows you to

ensure the appropriateness of your materials.

Speech Anxiety

fear of speaking before an audience; the anxiety or fear experienced by communicators.

A concept map may help you brainstorm your speech topic by

focusing you on the relationships between your ideas or words.

Slide software may help audiences better comprehend speeches because they

inform or persuade without too much detailed or technical data.

The purpose of public speaking

inform, persuade, entertain

Gathering audience information

interviews, focus groups, and surveys

Visualization

mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation

The purpose of a preparation outline is to

organize your main points and speech support.

Ethics as a listener

our ability to respond to a speech of others (listening) is a basis of our responsibility to others

Listening

paying close attention to, and making sense of, what we hear

The listening process

selecting, attending, understanding, remembering, responding

Speeches of political advocacy and social protest are usually participating in the rhetoric or discourse of

social movements

beleifs

specific ideas that people hold to be true

Plagiarism

taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

Direct Quotations

testimony that is presented word for word

Empathy

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another

Communication Apprehension

the fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated communication with another or others

You should avoid using a presentation aid when

the focus is turned from the speaker to the presentation aids.

Ethics

the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions

Why is public speaking an art or craft, and not a science

you can learn how to be a scientist if you could read, but nobody can teach you the craft of being a good public speaker; practicing craft becomes better at it