Public Speaking Test 2

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Name and briefly describe below the five steps in Monroe's Motivated sequence.

Attention Satisfaction Need/Want Visualization Action

1. Which of the following is the final step in Monroe's motivated sequence?

Call to action

1. Using your credentials and behavior ability in your speech is an example of what Aristole called...

Ethos

1. According to the textbook, fear appeals are ineffective except in extreme situations, when the audience is particularly hostile... T or F

False

Although delivery can sometimes affect the response of an audience, generally audiences do not consider delivery as part of a speaker's credibility.

False

Cognitive dissonance is a theory of persuasion that states the speaker should make the audience uncomfortable because they will move to a mental place where they are no longer uncomfortable.

False

If a public speaker has several good reasons in support of his/her proposition, it is unnecessary to bring up and discuss the objections his/her audience may be thinking about in regard to the proposition

False

The concept of target audience means that you only have a certain number of people in the audience who care about the topic and you should therefore not be concerned about the others

False

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "We must either support the governor's plan to increase taxes on food or we will never be able to balance the state budget."

False dilemma

"Wheaties cereal is the healthiest of the major brands of cereal. Basketball player Kyrie Irving says so." This quotation is an example of

Inappropriate appeal to authority

1. At which of the following would you be most likely to hear a persuasive speech on a question of fact

Jury Trial

1. When you give a persuasive speech on a question of value, you need to...

Justify your value judgment against a set of standards or criteria.

Aristotle's term for evidence and good arguments was

Logos

This is a valid argument. "All tall people are from a European background. Benjamin is over 6'5". He is therefore from a European background."

No

This is a valid argument. "All working registered nurses in this hospital have passed the state boards. Marian has passed the state boards. She is therefore working in this hospital."

No

The Greek word for emotional appeals is seen today ibn which English word

Pathos

PEL =

Pathos, Ethos, Logos

The Catoosa County school system should provide mental health counseling on campus for all students is a proposition of...

Policy

The specific purpose "to convince my audience to volunteer at the next Special Olympics event" is a proposition of...

Policy

Speech topics such as supporting the police, buying a security system, or investing for retirement appeal to the ... level of Maslow's hierarchy

Safety and security needs

Persuasion means inducing audience members to change. What does that mean?

The audience must see the cost of change as less than the benefit of the change.

In decades past, economists used to joke that the stock market went up and down with the length that the fashion world prescribed for women's skirts; if the stock market went down, skirts were worn longer. What kind of reasoning were they using?

This is sign reasoning, but a fallacious example, because the two are not really connected

1. The specific purpose, " to persuade my audience that sex education reduces teen pregnancy" is a proposition of...

True

Jenna is as mean as a snake before she gets her coffee in the morning" is a figurative analogy.

True

Monroe's Motivated Sequence takes the base problem solution format and expands it

True

The main cause of climate change is human activity is a proposition of

True

The red herring fallacy refers to statements that introduce an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.

True

The three parts of a syllogism are major premise, minor premise, and conclusion

True

When choosing evidence, choose evidence your audience is unlikely to have been exposed to before hearing your speech.

True

1. to persuade my audience that the newly developed CRISP genetic technology is morally unjustifiable is a specific purpose statement for a persuasive speech on a question of

Value

A straw man argument takes place when

a speaker takes a weak or faulty but small part of an opponent's position and blows it up out of proportion.

1. Which is the best approach to dealing with the difficulty of persuading audiences

a-c

The following statement is an example of reasoning. "This program was implemented in Philadelphia two years ago and has provided housing for more than 2,000 people at little cost to the city. If it can work there, it can work here, too, because we have the same population groups and economic diversity as Philadelphia."

analogical

What type of reasoning is being used in this example? "Chattanooga, Tennessee, has developed a a. high speed Internet infrastructure. Since Macon, Georgia, is the same size and also a city in the South, it will be able to develop a successful high speed Internet infrastructure.

analogical reasoning

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "Eliminating the space program is clearly the right thing to do. A recent poll by CBS polling organization showed that 65 percent of Americans thought we should abolish the program."

bandwagon or appeal to popularity

What kind of reasoning is exemplified in the following statement? "Politicians who are guilty of corruption do not deserve to be reelected. Last year our U.S. representative was proved to be corrupt by her use of campaign donations for personal financial gain. Therefore, our U.S. representative does not deserve to be reelected."

deductive

The specific purpose " to persuade my audience that their second amendment rights do not include ownership of assault weapons" is an argument based on...

definition

A literal analogy compares two things that are essentially different but have one or two superficial similarities, while a figurative analogy compares two essentially alike things.

false

28. What fallacy is committed in this argument? "I don't think that the checkout workers at Kroger are very friendly. I tried to strike up a conversation with one last week, and with one a month ago, and they did not respond."

hasty generalization

What might be wrong with this proposition for a speech in your class? People in their twenties should opt out of the Social Security System and reinvest those funds...

it is too extreme in what it is asking

Which statement is true bout the action steps in Monroe's Motivated Sequence

it should specify immediate, small actions that can be taken to address the problem

1. Appeals to fear, compassion, guilt, or pride are the kinds of appeals that Aristotle referred to as

pathos

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "Why should we be concerned about climate change? There are human problems in this country, like poverty, that need our attention."

red herring

The following statement is an example of what type of fallacy? "If we encourage elementary-school teachers to use hand-held devices in the classroom, the students will spend less time reading books. As a result, they will fall way behind in developing reading, writing, and thinking skills. Pretty soon we will have a generation of illiterates on our hands.

slippery slope


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