Speech 1

"To inform my audience about the major steps in performing CPR" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about

A process

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

A set of ethical standards or guidelines

In an informative speech, the speaker acts as

A teacher

The more ____________ a word, the more ambiguous it will be.

Abstract

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

Active

Dolores is preparing visual aids for her speech about resources available to the Latino/Latina community and has decided to use a handout. When should she distribute it?

After the speech

____ is repetition of initial consonant of close or adjoining words

Alliteration

"To inform my audience about the origins of the Jewish holiday of Purim" is a specific purpose statement for an informative speech about

An event

"Divided there is little we can do; united there is little we cannot do" is an example of

Antithesis

Listening for pleasure or enjoyment is called ______ listening.

Appreciative

What does critical thinking include?

Assessing the soundness of evidence, seeing the relationships among ideas, and judging the credibility of statements

Mayor Kathleen Baldwin has been asked to address the Wakefield Community Association about the issue of constructing a swimming pool in the neighborhood. The most important factor Baldwin should consider when analyzing her audience is probably its

Attitude towards the topic

As your textbook explains, when preparing an informative speech, you should

Avoid abstractions, personalize your ideas, and relate the subject directly to your audience

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

Comprehensive

The ____________ meaning of a word is what the word suggests or implies.

Connotative

____ is the audience's perception of whether the speaker is qualified to speak on a given topic.

Credibility

When a speaker uses a ____________ ending, the speech builds in force until it reaches a zenith of power and intensity.

Crescendo

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

Critical

A ____ ending is a type of speech conclusion that generates emotional appeal by fading step by step to a dramatic final statement.

Dissolve

According to your textbook, the tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being is called

Egocentrism

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 ______ listening.

Empathic

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

Empathic

When you advocate a highly unpopular position, it is particularly important to ____________ in the introduction of your speech.

Establish goodwill toward the audience

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

Ethical

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

Ethics

____ is the belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.

Ethnocentrism

Distributing handouts is usually an excellent way to present visual aids during a speech.

False

Listeners usually realize how tense a speaker is.

False

Most successful speakers do not experience stage fright.

False

One advantage of using video in a speech is that it involves less work than other kinds of visual aids.

False

When preparing charts and graphs, you should use a large number of colors in order to grab your audience's attention.

False

While listening to a speech about gun control, Scott thought back to his experiences as an intern with the police department and decided that the speaker was knowledgeable about the subject. What was Scott doing?

Filtering the message through his frame of reference

"Do you think gun control is a workable solution to the problem of violence in U.S. schools?" is an example of a fixed-alternative question because it can be answered with a "yes" or a "no."

Fixed alternative

The knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes through which each listener filters a message make up the listener's _____

Frame of reference

The primary purpose of speech making is to

Gain a desired response from listeners.

____ Is the audience's perception of whether the speaker has the best interests of the audience in mind.

Goodwill

The denotative meaning of a word is

It's literal meaning or dictionary definition

What is a major factor to consider when deciding whether to use an object as a visual aid?

It's size

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, and citing unusual case as typical examples

Dr. Kristin Lutz is preparing an informative talk about the genetic relationship between twins for a group of expectant parents. The most important factor Dr. Lutz should consider when analyzing her audience is probably its

Knowledge of the topic

If you were delivering a speech about unemployment and wanted to show changes in the unemployment rate over the last decade, you should use a ____________ graph.

Line

"Our mission is to serve justice, to right wrong, and to protect democracy" is an example of

Parallelism

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

Paraphrase

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

Patchwork

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

Plagiarism

____ is controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his or her presentation.

Positive nervousness

A ____________ identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.

Preview statement

An excellent way to give your speech psychological unity is to conclude by

Referring to ideas in the introduction

A ____________ is a question that the audience answers mentally rather than out loud.

Rhetorical question

Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers are called ____________ questions.

Scale

What should public speakers do to avoid ethnocentrism?

Show respect for the cultures of the people they address.

If you want to use a photograph as a visual aid for a speech, your textbook recommends that you

Show the photograph to the audience by using presentation technology.

If your specific purpose statement were "To inform my audience about the major land regions in Spain," you would probably organize your speech in

Spatial order

___ is anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.

Stage fright

Which of the following recommendations does your textbook give for relating a subject directly to your audience in an informative speech?

Tell the audience why your message is important to them, Tie your topic into the audience's interests and concerns, and Speak in personal terms, using words such as "you" and "your."

According to your textbook, which of the following is a factor in situational audience analysis?

The size of the audience

The primary aim of an informative speech is to

To convey knowledge or information.

Because people have different frames of reference, a public speaker must take care to adapt her or his message to the particular audience being addressed.

True

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

Even when you paraphrase, you still need to give the author credit, just as if you were quoting verbatim.

True

Familiar words are usually more effective than fancy, complicated ones, which can make a speaker sound stuffy and pretentious.

True

It is important to protect a person's freedom to express her or his ideas even if you don't agree with those ideas.

True

It is normal—even desirable—to be nervous at the start of a speech.

True

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

True

One key to successful speaking is to consider every audience as worthy of your best efforts to communicate your ideas.

True

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

True

Personalizing your ideas—presenting them in human terms—is an excellent way to make an informative speech lively and engaging.

True

Public speaking and ordinary conversation are similar in that both involve adapting to listener feedback.

True

Public speaking has been taught and studied for thousands of years.

True

Sometimes you can use your own body as a visual aid

True

Speechmaking becomes more complex as cultural diversity increases.

True

Taking account of your listeners' racial, ethnic, or cultural background is an important factor in demographic—rather than situational—audience analysis.

True

The conclusion should normally make up about 5 to 10 percent of your speech.

True

Using inclusive language is an important part of being an audience-centered public speaker.

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

You can remain true to your beliefs while adapting your message to the needs of a particular audience.

True

You should usually work out the exact wording of the introduction after you have finished preparing the body of your speech.

True

Your textbook recommends taking notes in the form of a key-word outline.

True

Which recommendation is a way to help you deal with nervousness in your speeches?

Work especially hard on your speech introduction

Which of the following is an instance of informative speaking?

a counselor explaining the stages of grieving to people who have recently lost loved ones

When using presentation technology, you should

check the equipment ahead of time to make sure it is working properly, check the equipment ahead of time to make sure it is working properly, and give yourself extra time for preparation and rehearsal.