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Kelly makes eye contact w. speakers and smiles and nod with encouragement, What technique is Kelly helping speakers w/?

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Positive Listener Support

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Susan had been planning her speech about owls for an elementary school audience. Scared them by showing them disturbing pictures....

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She failed to know her audience

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Which style of communication apprehension is generally associated with channeling nervous energy to improve public speaking?

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Inflexible

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Which of the following is a good strategy to use while speaking to calm speaker anxiety?

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Look for positive listener support

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Most speakers who procrastinate in preparing their speeches

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will feel more speaker apprehension

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How can anxiety be useful?

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It can help you be energetic and positive

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Wilber

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Wilber did not prepare

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If you have had previous experience in public speaking, you tend to be less sensitive to apprehension, and you have a lower heart rate when speaking. What is likely to be your style of communication apprehension?

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Insensitive

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What strategy is Kobe using?

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Focusing on the message and not on the fear

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Nathan

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select an appropriate topic

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What style of comm. apprehension do you have if, like many people, you have a very high heart rate as you begin presenting a speech, and then your heart rate tapers off to more average levels?

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Confrontational

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Jackie

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She visualized her success

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Kecia

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She made her rehearsal realistic

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In the few min before you address your listeners, mentally reviewing your major ideas, your intro, and your conclusion can actually cause more fear about the public speaking situation.

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FALSE

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Only a select few of people experience communication apprehension

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FALSE

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Anxiety can be useful to a public speaker

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TRUE

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You will be less nervous if you talk about something you are familiar with or have some personal experience with

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TRUE

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The four styles of communication apprehension include: 1. Average, 2. Sensitive, 3. inflexible, and 4. confrontation

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FALSE

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Seeking speaking opportunities is another way to help reduce speaking anxiety

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TRUE

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While it is freedom, free speech is not protected by law

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FALSE

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Ethical public speaking is inherently audience-centered

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TRUE

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A hypothetical illustration is considered unethical because it is false information

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FALSE

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If speakers choose to exercise their right to free speech, they are no longer responsible for the guidelines of ethical speaking

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FALSE

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As the boundaries of free speech decrease, the importance of free speech increases.

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FALSE

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According to the National Communication Association, _____ is fundamental to responsible thinking, decision making, and the development of relationships and communities within and across cultures, media etc.

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ethical communication

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The action when a person decides not to overestimate or falsify an insurance claim just the have extra money, is based on the individual's

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Code of ethics

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Marty

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This is an ethical violation known as plagiarism

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_____ speech or speech act is legally protected

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Free

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What act, passed one month after 9/11/2001, has been widely criticized by civil rights, free speech, and publishing groups?

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Patriot Act

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Gabe

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Gabe violated an ethical principle that requires speakers to be honest

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hypothetical illustrations within a speech are

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acceptable to show what might happen, as long as the speaker is clear that it is hypothetical

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Eric

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No, this kind of "sound biting" violates the ethical guideline of using sound evidence and reasoning

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Credibility

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is a speakers believability

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Freedom of speech

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1st amendment

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A speaker who analyzed the listeners and the occasion and adapts his/her speech according to them is defined as

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and audience-centered speaker

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Brent

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A speakers personal experience makes him more credible to his audience

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Statistical information about characteristics such as age, race, gender, education, and religious views are a part of

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demographics

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Veronica

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nonverbal audience cues

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Greg

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formal audience analysis

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Audience members who place more importance on non verbal messages from a speaker might be from__cultures, whereas those placing more emphasis on what is said than the nonverbal messages might be from___cultures.

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high context; low context

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Savena

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situational analysis

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Good speakers should ethically use the info gathered in the audience analysis so that their message will be clearly understood by the audience. This process is called

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audience adaptation

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A segment of you audience that you most want to address or influence is the

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target audience

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TJ

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illustrate the point with a funny, personal example

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Trying to determine what an audience believes or thinks about a speech topic is termed as

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psychological analysis

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Robert

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An indication of nonverbal responsiveness

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in discovering that the audience members have similar cultural characteristics, are about eh same age, and have relatively the same education level-although they don't have the same socioeconomic background---the speaker is trying to discover

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common ground

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to gather formal info about audience members' attitudes, beliefs,and values, you can

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ask open-ended and closed-ended questions on a survey.

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A voluntary auidence has externally imposed reasons for being there

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FALSE

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Identifying common cultural issues and similarities can help you establish common ground with your audience

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TRUE

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Audience analysis is the process of examining info about those who are expected to present speeches

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FALSE

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People evaluate credibility by intentions, not by behavior

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FALSE

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To gather information informally requires developing a well-written survey or questionnaire

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FALSE

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If you adapt to you audience by abandoning your own values, you will become an unethical speaker rather than

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TRUE

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Inferences based on generalized information may lead to faulty conclusions

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TRUE

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Using your skill to learn about your listeners an then to adapt to them can help you maintain your listener attention an make them more receptive to your ideas.

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TRUE

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When you structure your speech topic into main points, based on a reasonable, appropriate progression of ideas, what aspect of organization are you accomplishing?

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Finding logical divisions

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This statement is decided solely by the speaker since it depends on the behavioral change the speaker expects

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Specific purpose

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Allision

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Her central idea is too vague

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Is it appropriate to develop a speech topic based on something you heard on a television talk show?

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Yes, brainstorming ideas from a television program is a good way to develop a topic

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"At the end of my speech, my audience will be able to list the three different types of Reggae music," is an example of a

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specific purpose

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Elizabeth

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entertain

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"i'm going to talk about the sport of racquetball, including the history of the game, some of the basic equipment used when playing racquetball, including the history of the game, some of the basic equipment used when playing racquetball, and some of the health benefits derived from the sport." an audience member would recognize this as

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a blueprint statement

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When searching for a speech topic, Web directories, such as yahoo, are helpful because

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they have a list of topics divided into categories and subcategories

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During your speech you ask your audience to sign a petition increasing the student parking areas. your general goal is to

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persuade

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Derrick

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logical division of the central idea

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what are the three general purposes?

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to inform, to persuade, to entertain

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"use sunscreen"

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establish reasons why your central idea is true

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Barnett

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a central idea or thesis

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A combination of your central idea and a summary of your main points is known as the

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blueprint

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"to tell my audience about pigs" is a good specific purpose statement

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FALSE

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the central idea should be a complete declarative sentence a phrase or clause, and not a question.

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TRUE

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Organizing speech ideas according to direction and location is a

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spatial pattern

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April

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Final summart

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Shanthani

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chronological

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Daryl

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A preview

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eduardo

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"soft" to "hard" evidence

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Words and gestures, that allow you to move smoothly from one idea to the next throughout the speech, are known as

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signposts

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Paul

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the specificity princliple

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Mandy

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"soft" to "hard" evidence

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a speech topic that presents an issue that needs resolving can effectivley be orgaized as

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promblem solution

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A speech orgaizatinoal pattern which goes one step beyond cause and effect to discuess ways to alter, fix, or correct an effect is termed as

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a problem solution pattern

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suicide speech

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specificity

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John

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