Public Speaking Chapter 7
In order to guard against gender discrimination and stereotyping members of your audience, you should
All of these answers
How can you evaluate your audience's reactions in order to adapt your message during your speech?
All of these answers.
How might you discover the favorability rating of your topic?
All of these answers.
Which of the following is an example of racial prejudice?
An HR representative assumes that a person of Chinese heritage will have poor communication skills.
How can you assess summative knowledge?
Ask the audience to complete a questionnaire or use an Audience Response System at the end.
If you are speaking to remote locations via video conferencing technology, which of the following is something you should consider?
If there is a time lag that is noticeable to your viewers and how to minimize confusion.
Why does it benefit a speaker to consider the psychology of their audience?
Knowing the audience's starting point makes it easier to get them to accept a particular idea or take an action.
Which of the following is something to avoid when making observations about your audience?
Observing through the lens of your own personal biases.
Which audience size enables a speaker to develop a less formal, more interactive speech?
Small
Why should you consider the demographics of your audience before delivering a speech?
So you can adapt analogies, vocabulary, quotes from authorities, and dialects to the audience.
What characterizes the Baby Boom generation?
They are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values
Which of the following describes Millennials?
They came of age at a time marked by an increase in a neoliberal approach to politics and economics.
Why should you consider your audience's formal and self-directed education when giving a presentation?
Your audience may not know about something that is very obvious to you.
Formative knowledge is
knowledge that is forming in the mind of the audience during the speech.
Ethnicity is
the characteristics of a group of people with common ancestry who share a distinctive culture.
