Public Speaking Chapter 6

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

False

Unlike beginning speakers, experience speakers have little need for audience analysis.

False

Even when listeners pay close attention, they don't process a speaker's message exactly as the speaker intended.

True

Gender, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, and group membership are all factors to consider when conducting a demographic audience analysis.

True

Knowing how the physical setting might affect your listeners' receptivity to your ideas is an important factor in situational audience analysis.

True

The size of the audience is one of the factors to be considered in situational audience analysis.

True

Adapting to audiences is one of the easiest tasks facing beginning speakers.

False

Because men and women in the United States share a much broader range of experiences and they once did, gender is no longer a significant factor in demographic audience analylsis.

False

Being audience-centered means your primary purpose as a speaker is to gain a desired response from the audience.

True

Although most of the process of audience adaptation occurs as part of preparing a speech, a speaker may still need to adapt his or her remarks to the audience during the presentation.

True