Saylor Academy COMM 101

Which organizational pattern did The Daily Show is a Legitimate Form of News use?

Comparative Advantage

Which of the following is NOT a type of public speaking?

Exploratory

Which set of transitional devices are both varied and consistent?

Next, then, after, finally

Of the five stages of listening, which one follows understanding?

Remembering

Feeling light-headed, nauseated, forgetful, or inarticulate are all signs of what communication challenge?

Speaking apprehension

If your lengthy, complicated speech requires you to use a lot of presentation aids, which delivery mode would be the most suitable?

Speaking from a manuscript

What is the serial position effect?

The way people remember the first and last points better than points in the middle of a list

The primary function of the speech Ian's Entertaining Speech - You Should Date a CS Student was to entertain; however, it was also persuasive. Which type of policy claim did it make?

Immediate action

Which of the following illustrates inclusive language?

This option is available to all members and their partners

Which type of outline should you use when you begin developing your speech?

Working outline

Which of the following principles of outline creation is INCORRECT?

Your outline should show that you have developed interest and variety when referring to terms.

Of the three reasons for using support, choose the answer below which refers to one of those reasons appropriately and also satisfies most of the criteria for using support in a speech.

"The current President has sought to fund his job-creation proposals partly by increasing taxes on people making over $250,000 per year." As support to clarify content, you could choose this statement made by the author of the book "Presidents and Jobs: 100 Years of Job Creation."

Which of the following individuals' testimony would you use to support the point that people with serious health problems should wear medical bracelets?

A car accident victim describing how, when she was only semi-conscious, an EMT had read her "allergic to latex" bracelet and removed his latex gloves before touching her

A speaker who wants to talk about the bailout of big banks that occurred in 2009 could talk about how the U.S. banking system's collapse started with the failure of Lehman brothers, which proceeded to infect bank after bank throughout the system. Instead, however, the speaker chooses to focus on the credit default swaps, which also played a significant role in the collapse. As a result, which of Rowan's sources of confusion did the speaker chose to address?

A difficult concept

When used for developing the contents of a speech, what does the word support refer to?

A range of strategies that reinforce a central idea

Why is the following thesis statement inadequate? Hello, everyone. My goal today is to show you how electric cars will change your future in three specific ways: they will change how you drive, they will change how much you pay to drive, and they will change how you think about driving.

A thesis statement should be presented at the end of the introduction, not the beginning

Which of the presentation aids below is weakened by a lack of visual or verbal clarity?

A. Famous Fruit Quote

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, inhaling smoke from cigarettes or other devices impacts the circulatory system by restricting blood vessels and increasing the incidence of peripheral vascular disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Which of the following revisions of this statement is the most effective in using language familiar to teenagers?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking anything--whether it is cigarettes, marijuana, or powdered drugs--can have serious effects on your veins and arteries. It makes them less flexible and can make them more vulnerable to disease and other problems.

What does the textbook IMPLY that you should do to reduce context apprehension?

All of the above

What is vocalics?

All of the above

When is it a good idea to use audience analysis as a way to cope with the anxiety and stress of public speaking?

All of the above

Which of the following reflects the order of main points and/or subpoints in a persuasive speech that uses Monroe's Motivated Sequence?

Attention-Need-Satisfaction-Visualization-Action

A student is asked to give a 5-minute persuasive speech to his classmates. When he presents a critique his girlfriend's intimate anatomy, he has all of his classmates laughing so much that only the instructor notices the speech was almost twice its assigned length. Which constraint on topic selection was the only one the speaker did NOT ignore?

Audience

Which of the presentation aids below would be the best way to emphasize the point that in the past 30 years, women have outpaced men as college graduates?

B. looks like an X

Why use a reverse outline?

Because it can help you identify points in your speech that do not have enough support

According to a report from the U.S. government's National Center for Education Statistics, "In 2005, approximately 40 percent of the 41.9 million Hispanics and 68 percent of the 12.3 million Asians in the United States were foreign born." Why would it be unethical for a speaker use this quote to illustrate why the children of immigrants should not be allowed to pay in-state tuition rates?

Because using it in that context would be a distortion

When a person's attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors are contradictory, what motivational state are they experiencing?

Cognitive dissonance

In the student speech Alopecia, which topic category did the speaker choose?

Concepts

When opponents listen to each other present arguments during a debate, which type of listening are they most likely practicing while waiting for their rebuttals?

Content-oriented

A speaker whose goal is to discourage people from smoking describes to an audience of adults a smoker's slow, painful death from lung cancer but in another speech shows children a video in which a girl says to her smoking-addicted father, "Yuk, Daddy, your jacket is smelly!" What model or theory of public speaking does the speaker's adjustment illustrate?

Dialogic theory

For a speech about electric cars, which of the following statements would be the most effective in getting an audience of senior citizens to listen?

Electric cars may be too expensive or inconvenient for you today, but for your grandchildren, they represent a greener, healthier future.

Inspirational speeches are categorized as what type of speech?

Entertaining

Which of the following represents the best way to convert the statements from a sentence outline about electric cars into speaking notes? 1. Electric cars protect the environment by reducing the need to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive regions. 2. Electric cars help protect the earth by reducing carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.

Environment benefits - reduces drilling, carbon emissions

Which of the following is good advice for a speaker who is dealing with audience-related speaking anxiety?

Focus on the audience's needs, not your own

Which of the following descriptions reflect the nature of listening?

Focused and intentional

If a radio talk show host tells her followers to watch only one cable news channel, because the other channels are biased, which goal of the NCA Credo for Ethical Communication do her ethics fail to achieve?

Freedom of expression, diversity of perspective, and tolerance

You are in your living room speaking to a large group of your neighbors about forming a neighborhood crime watch. At one point in your speech, you hold up a poster you created which shows a map of the neighborhood and three security routes watch members will choose from to perform their duties. But when you ask for volunteers to select their preferred routes, the people in the back of the room indicate that they cannot see the poster well enough to choose. What would be the most effective way to respond to this problem?

Have someone print out and distribute letter-sized copies of the poster while you discuss other issues.

In a speech about ethnicity and voting patterns, a politician upset members of his audience when used the word black to describe the mood of a voter whose candidate lost by a wide margin. What was the problem with the politician's word choice?

He failed to account for connotative meaning

What is cognitive restructuring?

How speakers can reduce the negative impacts of anxiety by changing how they label their psychological responses to public speaking

Which of the following is the most important consideration when choosing between a sentence outline and note cards for delivering your speech?

If you use a sentence outline, you will end up reading to your audience rather than speaking to them.

Before Sally Field accepted the 1985 Best Actress Academy Award for her role in the movie "Places in the Heart," actor Richard Dreyfuss read off the list of nominees, summarizing the past roles and accomplishments of each actress. Once he had finished, he elaborately shook out his jacket sleeves, opened the envelope, laughed, and jokingly said, I'm not gonna say. Then, he paused before shouting out, And the winner is Sally Fields! When Fields took to the stage, she made an emotional speech that ended with the now-famous words, You like me! Right now, you like me! (often misquoted as "You like me! You really like me!"). What three types of entertaining speeches are represented in the passage you just read?

Introductions, a presentation, and an acceptance

Which of the following is NOT an example of some of the benefits of learning about and participating in public speaking?

Less effort spent on creating speeches

When you decide to begin your speech with a startling statement about the nature of your topic, what ethical obligation is important that you meet?

Make sure the statement is accurate, not just startling.

A student is asked to give a 5-minute persuasive speech to his classmates. When he uses humor to prove that his girlfriend's intimate anatomy should be enshrined in sculpture, he has all of his classmates laughing so much that only the instructor notices the speech was almost twice its assigned length. Which tip for creating specific purposes should the speaker have paid more attention to?

Match the rhetorical situation

A political challenger can use statistics and facts to show that his opponent's proposals to regulate businesses will increase the cost of doing business; however, instead, he chooses to describe his opponent's goals as an attempt to destroy the economic foundation of the country. Which level of the ethics pyramid does the politician's strategy reflect?

Means

In one assignment in this course, you evaluated two entertaining speeches: Ian's Entertaining Speech - You Should Date a CS Student and The Public Porcelain Potty - Entertainment Speech. Given the ingredients of a good entertaining speech, which of the two speeches would have been the most effective, and why?

Miranda's because her speech was the most prepared and adaptive to the occasion

Which of the following includes an effective preview of a speech's main points?

My goal today is to show you how electric cars will change your future in three ways: they will change how you drive, they will change how much you pay to drive, and they will change how you think about driving.

Referring to an increase in taxes on the wealthy as wealth redistribution is the use of what type of definition?

Persuasive

Statement 1: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking damages blood vessels and can cause other circulatory problems. Statement 2: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that smoking can damage your blood vessels. Of the two preceding statements, if the speaker chose Statement 2, which TWO elements of language does the speaker's choice reflect?

Power and economy

You are in the living room of your home, about to give a speech to a very large group of neighbors about forming a neighborhood crime watch. Which type of tool should you have used to ensure that your audience receives all of the information you provide as accurately as possible?

Situational

Which audience size enables a speaker to develop a less formal, more interactive speech?

Small

Which of the following statements is true?

Some nervousness can make your speech better.

You are government official speaking to an audience of senior citizens about changes in their government-sponsored health care benefits. Which of the following would be a good way to establish your credibility with that audience?

Summarize what you know about the audience's health care concerns and provide information that addresses those concerns

In response to a speech, an audience gives the speaker a standing ovation. What type of feedback is that?

Summative

When you outline your speech, you discover that your three main points are supported by 1, 3, and 3 points respectively. What does this indicate to you?

That your speech lacks balance and proportion

Of the following speeches, which one of the following used the most effective visual aid to capture the audience's attention in the introduction of the speech: The Causes of Homelessness, Alopecia, The Public Porcelain Potty, or Making a Difference through the Special Olympics?

The Public Porcelain Potty

Of the speeches you listened to during this course, which of the following could have been categorized as an informative speech as well as a speech to entertain: The Causes of Homelessness, The Public Porcelain Potty, My Crazy Aunt Sue, or Alopecia?

The Public Porcelain Potty

During a long sermon, a 10-year-old child annoys nearby adults by constantly whining about being hungry and bored. What type(s) of noise are the adults and the child experiencing, and what would be the most effective ways to eliminate those noises?

The child is experiencing physiological noise and the adults are experiencing physical noise. The child should be taken elsewhere or given something to eat to distract him or her. In the meantime, the adults should just try to ignore the child.

When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spoke at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People's Forum in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 5, 2011, she asked her audience to help Burma in its struggle for democracy. You heard her make that plea when you watched a video in Unit 14. However, that speech was categorized in your textbook as a speech to entertain. What public speaking model or theory justifies that categorization and why?

The dialogic theory, because it emphasizes context

Which of the following statistics would provide the most effective support for the point that global warming increased in the 20th century?

The global surface temperature increased by 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005. [SOURCE: http://www.theglobalwarmingstatistics.org/the-global-warming-statistics]

Which of the following phrases uses vivid language that is both appropriate for and effective in discussing the mood of an ethnically diverse group of voters?

The leaders of the party who wanted the votes recounted saw red when the court refused their request.

For what reason(s) should a speaker list Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut instead of referring to them as New England, the nickname for that group of states?

To adjust complexity to the audience

Which of the following persuasive goals is the most difficult to accomplish?

To change a person's core beliefs

Which specific purpose matches the following set of main points: families with young children do better with older, more patient dogs; families with teenagers often appreciate younger, more athletic dogs; childless families often prefer dogs that are more affectionate.

To help families choose a dog with the right traits

Eye-Oh-Key-Are. That's spelled I-O-K-I-Y-A-R. Eye-Oh-Key-Are. It means 'It's OK if you are a Republican' and it's one of many ways opposing parties vilify each other in today's political climate. The problem is that each party spends so much time disparaging the other party that voters rarely hear politicians presenting their problem-solving ideas. Which of the following statements would be the best one to insert after this passage to establish the speaker's credibility?

To prepare for this speech, I examined several transcripts from recent political speeches and found not a single one which went into detail about any policy issues.

Which type of communication apprehension is NOT related to speaking in front of an audience?

Trait anxiety

Which of the following statements about using specific types of support is incorrect?

Use summary when you do not have enough time to use all of the source's material.

Which of the following speeches you examined in the Unit 15 and its associated assignment is NOT matched correctly with the persuasive claim it used: : Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving, Making a Difference through the Special Olympics, or The Daily Show is a Legitimate Form of News?

Value claim: Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving

A presidential candidate who has a strong background in business needs to attract the support of senior citizens and so arranges to give a speech at a large retirement community. He also hires a polling company to discover specific information about his audience that he can use in his speech. Which of the following polling questions would be the most effective in helping the candidate choose a topic for his speech?

What expenses have the greatest impact on your household budget?

Which set of numbers accurately groups the following traits of oral verses written language? 1. Shorter words, 2. Precise numerical words, 3. More verbal variety, 4. More superlative words, 5. Fewer qualifying statements, 6. Fewer words of self-reference, 7. More complicated sentences, 8. More colloquialism, 9. Fewer interjections, and 10. Fewer contractions

Written language: 2, 3, 7, 9

Which of the following are NOT examples of primary research?

You find articles on healthy eating and summarize what they indicate