Ch. 2

In public speaking, sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against what?

A set of ethical standards of guidelines

Listening to evaluate a message for the purpose of accepting or rejecting it is called ________ listening.

Critical

At a coffee shop on campus, Rachel listens to her friend Shanti discuss his feeling about his mother's recent death. According to your textbook, Rachel is engaged in _______ listening.

Empathetic

Because speech making is a form of power, it carries with it heavy _______ responsibilities.

Ethical

Hearing and listening are identical.

False

Protecting a speaker's freedom to express his or her ideas implies agreement with those ideas.

False

Skilled listeners try to remember a speaker's every word.

False

The larger an audience becomes, the greater is the speaker's ethical responsibility to be fully prepared.

False

Gabrielle, a physiology major, waited until the last minute to begin preparing her persuasive speech. When her friend Ken learned that she was panicking over the assignment, he gave her the outline of a speech he had delivered in class the previous semester. Gabrielle used the speech and presented it as her own. Which of the following is true?

Gabrielle is guilty of global plagiarism because she took a speech entirely from a single source and passed it off as her own.

Listening and critical thinking are so closely allied that training in listening is also training in how to think.

True