Speech Mid Term

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Ontology

Audience Analysis

According to your textbook, how a person feels about something is the definition of ____.

Audience Attitudes

When Susan attended the first discussion section for her math class and heard her instructor begin speaking with an unfamiliar accent, she immediately decided, "I won't learn anything from this teacher." Susan failed to uphold which guideline for ethical listening?

Avoid prejudging the speaker.

Having spent two years working in a television newsroom, Madison decided to give her informative speech on that topic. Because she knew a lot about it and was comfortable speaking to an audience, she didn't spend much time preparing. As a result, her speech was poorly organized, ran overtime, and did not have a clear message. Which guideline for ethical public speaking discussed in your textbook did Madison fail to live up to?

Be fully prepared for each speech.

According to your textbook, when evaluating and selecting your topic it is important to do each of the following EXCEPT ____.

Consider what others are speaking on

____ refers to the rules or standards within a culture about what is right and wrong.

Ethics

"Conducting regular car maintenance" is an example of an effective specific purpose statement for a speech.

False

A public speaker need only be concerned about ethics in the conclusion of a speech.

False

According to your textbook, demographics focus on the psychological data such as standpoints, values, beliefs and attitudes of an audience.

False

Although storytelling used to be an essential skill for human communication and survival, modern audiences are no longer interested in listening to stories during speeches.

False

Asking closed-ended questions on your audience research questionnaire is a good way to generate quotes you may be able to use in your speech.

False

Having a well-defined purpose is not especially important in public speaking.

False

If you disagree with a speaker, you have nothing to gain by listening carefully.

False

If you misstate a point, get your ideas out of order, or mispronounce a word, you should quickly point out your mistake and apologize to the audience before moving on.

False

Listening generally does not have an impact on how connected we feel to the other person.

False

Name-calling is ethical in public speaking because it is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

False

One of the major demographic traits of audiences is interest in the speaker's topic.

False

Speeches arranged in problem-solution order are divided into four main parts.

False

The interests, needs, and expectations of your audience have little or no bearing on your speech.

False

The three general purposes of a speech are to inform, to persuade or to demonstrate.

False

When citing an Internet document in a speech, it is usually sufficient to introduce it by saying, "As I found on the Web."

False

Axiology

Honest or trustworthy

What was the name of the effective listening model present in the class lecture?

Hurier Model

Praxeology

Logical

Which of the following is the least interactive sphere of communication?

Mass media

The term for an aid to help you to remember is called:

Mnemonic

Which of the following is not one of the competencies of public speaking?

Nervouness

The 80/20 rule was developed by:

Pareto

Epistemology

Reading

Cosmology

Room Arrangement

Claire is trying to listen to her history professor's lecture, but her mind keeps wandering to thoughts about her plans for the upcoming weekend. She is likely experiencing ____.

Spare Brain Time

According to your textbook, mindfulness involves consciously focusing on a situation and maintaining awareness of what you say and how others respond.

True

Ethical issues can arise at every stage of the speechmaking process.

True

If you are upset and emotional you should try and reschedule an important meeting.

True

Phrasing the thesis of your speech clearly helps you to identify exactly what you want to say to your audience.

True

The most recent models of human communication take into account the pervasive communication environment in which the communication takes place.

True

Whenever you quote someone directly in a speech, you must attribute the words to that person.

True

Deaf spots

Understanding things counter to our convictions

Balancing free speech with the responsibility to the audience

an ethical guideline

Fred's headache was causing him to have trouble concentrating on his classmate's speech. This type of distraction is called ____.

an internal noise

Effective public speakers provide oral citations during their speeches. Oral citations are

brief references to their sources.

Which organizational pattern would be most effective for arranging the main points of a speech with the specific purpose "To inform my audience about the major steps in setting up a home aquarium"?

chronological

The linear or transmission model of communication consists of

communication in a single direction.

Which of the following strategies is least likely to help you deal with nervousness in your speeches?

concentrating on your stage fright

As he spoke, his audience perceived Daniel to be competent about his topic, honest and sincere, and to be a dynamic speaker. These perceptions greatly increase Daniel's ____.

credibility

Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.

definition of plaigarism

Technology is not available to everyone, particularly in developing countries. This lack of equitable technology distribution across age, race, education level, and internet connection speed is called the ____.

digital divide

A landlord with a bad reputation among students for her high rent, deceptive advertising, and refusal to return security deposits is speaking to a campus group about how the city's new zoning law will affect students. The most important factor the landlord should consider in her situational audience analysis is probably her listeners'

disposition toward the speaker.

Analyzes the content and speaker's effectiveness

ethical listener

All of the following are guidelines for ethical speechmaking except

explain your credibility on the speech topic.

Audience analysis and adaptation affect all aspects of speechmaking except for the delivery of the speech itself.

false

Audience analysis is only important after a speaker has prepared an outline for the speech.

false

Public speaking is essentially like acting because once you learn a speech, you can give it over and over without adapting to the different audiences you address.

false

Relational

giving support to a friend who lost his father

Stealing a speech entirely from a single source.

global plaigarism

How can you provide effective feedback to a speaker?

identify what the speaker did well offer specific examples of areas for improvement demonstrate that you listened carefully to the message

According to your textbook, the specific purpose for a speech should

include a reference to the audience be written as a full infinitive phrase.

Failing to give credit for a particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.

incremental plaigarism

If you were giving an informative speech to a general audience about digital encryption, the most important factor to consider when analyzing your audience would probably be the

knowledge of the audience about the topic.

"Don't you think Sponge Bob is the best show on TV " is an example of a(n)

leading question

Informational

listening to a car salesman

Appreciative

listening to music

Empathic

listening to your counselor

Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources.

patchwork plaigarism

Public speaking in the time of the Greeks was called

rhetoric

As a public speaker, you face ethical issues when

selecting the topic for your speech. researching your speech. organizing your speech

"To inform my audience how a perpetual motion machine works" is an example of a

specific purpose.

A seventeen-year-old African-American from the south side of Chicago and a forty-five-year old Caucasian businessman from Boston would likely have very different ____ based on demographics.

standpoints

A person's standpoint can best be described as

their perspective on the world

Which organizational pattern would probably be most effective for arranging the main points of a speech with the central idea "There are five basic positions of the feet in ballet"?

topical


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