Spch 2

To improve your listening, you should think of listening as a passive process.

False

The main section of a speech.

body

Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person.

eye contact

A speech early in the term designed to get students speaking in front of the class as soon as possible.

Ice breaker speech

______Blank is the use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups.

Name calling

A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern.

chronological order

Ivan is attending a union meeting in which the union president is discussing the company's plan to decrease wages in exchange for an increase in vacation time. As Ivan listens, he is trying to determine whether or not to vote for the plan. According to your textbook, Ivan is engaged in ______Blank listening.

critical

Motions of a speaker's hands of arms during a speech.

gestures

______Blank listening is listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.

Empathetic

Even though there can be gray areas when it comes to assessing a speaker's goals, it is still necessary to ask ethical questions about those goals.

True

The opening of a speech.

introduction

Although the specific purpose statement for a speech should not be phrased as a question, it is acceptable to phrase the central idea as a question.

False

Because listeners recognize that public speakers are promoting their self-interest, it is acceptable for speakers to alter evidence.

False

Because the brain can process many more words per minute than we talk, the resulting spare "brain time" makes listening easier.

False

Hearing and listening are identical.

False

Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own is called ______Blank plagiarism.

Patchwork

If you present another person's language or ideas as your own, you are guilty of ______Blank.

Plagiarism

What does the speaker do at the beginning of the speech to gain the audience's attention?

She displays an image of the courtyard at her grandmother's house.

Because speechmaking is a form of power, it carries with it heavy ______Blank responsibilities

Ethical

____Blank is the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.

Ethics

When the speaker mentions fear, monsters, and the unknown at the start of her speech, she is

gaining attention and relating to the audience.

The main points of this speech deal with Bella's fearlessness as an athlete, her fearlessness in traveling, and her fearlessness

in seizing new opportunities.

When your general purpose is to ____________Blank, you act as a teacher or lecturer

inform

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

Critical

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

False

Listening for pleasure or enjoyment is called ______Blank listening.

appreciative

The ____________Blank is a one-sentence statement that sums up or encapsulates the main points of a speech.

central idea

What are the two kinds of listening most closely tied to critical thinking?

comprehensive listening and critical listening

The major points developed in the body of a speech.

main points

When a speaker ______Blank, she restates or summarizes an author's ideas in her own words.

paraphrases

When you want to change or structure the attitudes of your audience, your general purpose is to ____________

persuade

The ____________Blank is a single infinitive phrase that states precisely what a speaker hopes to accomplish in her or his speech.

specific purpose statement

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

A set of ethical guidelines or standers

_____Blank listeners give their undivided attention to the speaker in a genuine effort to understand her or his point of view.

Active

Blank is a method of generating ideas for speech topics by free association of words and ideas.

Brainstorming

The final section of a speech.

Conclusion

Listening to understand the message of a speaker is called ______Blank listening.

Conprehensive

It is only necessary for a speaker to identify his or her source when quoting verbatim—not when paraphrasing. Group starts True or False

False

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

False

The central idea of a speech is usually formulated before the specific purpose.

False

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

False

Your textbook recommends taking word-for-word notes as a way to improve your listening skills.

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.

Even if your speech as a whole is ethical, you can still be guilty of ______Blank plagiarism if you fail to give credit for quotations, paraphrases, and other specific parts of the speech that are borrowed from other people

Incremental

Identify the flaw in the following specific purpose statement: "To persuade my audience that our state legislature should protect Internet privacy and increase spending for education."

It contains two unrelated ideas.

Identify the flaw in the following specific purpose statement: "Why should the university raise tuition?"

It's expressed as a question.

Identify the flaw in the following central idea for a speech: "Something should be done about rising sea levels."

It's too vague

Which of the following violates the speaker's ethical obligation to be honest in what she or he says?

Juggling statistics, quoting out of context, citing unusual cases as typical examples

What is the central idea of a speech with the following main points? I. Isabel Baumfree was born into slavery in the state of New York during the 1790s. II. After undergoing a conversion experience and changing her name to Sojourner Truth, she began preaching during the 1840s. III. Over the next few decades, she became a celebrated speaker for various reform causes.

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery, underwent a conversion experience, and became a speaker for various reform causes.

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

True

People spend more time listening than doing any other communicative activity.

True

When business managers are asked to rank-order the communication skills most crucial to their jobs, they usually rank listening as number one.

True

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

empathic

A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes

extemporaneous speech

The ____________Blank is what a speaker wants the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.

residual message

To persuade my audience that the U.S. space program provides many important benefits to people here on earth" is an example of a(n)

specific purpose statement.

What is the first step toward improving your listening skills?

take listening seriously

A method of speech organization in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics.

topical order

A word of phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another

transition