Message Received
A loud conversation outside the classroom interferes with your ability to hear the presenter. This disruption is an example of this.
What’s Noise?
This term names the anxiety a person experiences when speaking in public.
What’s Stage fright?
You and your listeners share an interest in making campus more accessible. This shared concern gives you this connection.
What’s Common ground?
A speaker copies a website’s wording and presents it as their own without crediting the source. This ethical violation has this name.
What’s Plagiarism?
One teammate contributes little because they expect everyone else to finish the project anyway. This behavior has this name.
What’s Social loafing?
While a classmate speaks, you nod and say “mm-hmm” to show you are listening. These signals have this name.
What are Backchanneling cues?
Before you begin your presentation, listeners already consider you knowledgeable because of your experience. This is the credibility you bring into the speech.
What’s Initial credibility?
Before preparing a presentation, you survey listeners about their knowledge and interests. This process gathers information to make your presentation meaningful to them.
What’s Audience analysis?
During your presentation, you identify your sources aloud so listeners know where your information came from. These spoken acknowledgments have this name.
What are Verbal citations?
Your team meets to generate as many ideas as possible, holding off on judging them at first. This method has this name.
What’s Brainstorming?
Before sending a text, you turn the idea in your head into words. This process transforms your idea into a message.
What’s Encoding?
Before presenting, you mentally picture yourself speaking clearly and finishing successfully. You are using this technique to manage anxiety.
What’s Visualization?
After learning that your listeners are beginners, you replace technical jargon with familiar language and everyday examples. These changes demonstrate this.
What’s Audience adaptation?
You support your main point with a bridge engineer’s explanation of a bridge failure. This type of support comes from someone speaking within their field of expertise.
What’s Expert testimony?
Everyone quickly accepts the first proposal without examining its weaknesses or considering alternatives. The team is showing this problem.
What’s Groupthink?
After instructions pass through several people, you compare the final message with the original. The degree of similarity measures this.
What’s Fidelity?
Your audience begins skeptical, but your well-supported explanations earn trust during your speech. You have developed this.
What’s Achieved credibility?
Your presentation explains how and why thunderstorms form, which deepens listeners’ understanding of a familiar phenomenon. This is the type of informative speaking you are using.
What’s Explanatory speaking?
Before including a surprising claim in your speech, you compare information across several sources to check its accuracy. This process has this name.
What’s Verification?
Each team member independently writes down ideas before sharing them with the group. This method begins with individual idea generation.
What’s Nominal group technique?
One roommate says, “I nag because you avoid me.” The other says, “I avoid you because you nag.” This assignment of different starting points to the same interaction sequence illustrates this concept.
What’s Punctuation?
A nervous speaker repeatedly pairs speaking practice with relaxation, learning to associate communication with calm. This anxiety-reduction technique has this name.
What’s Systematic desensitization?
By saying, “As future leaders, we must…,” a speaker invites listeners to adopt a particular identity. This term names the audience created through that language.
What’s Rhetorically constructed audience?
A speaker evaluates an ethical choice by asking which option will produce the greatest overall happiness for those affected. This ethical theory guides the decision.
What’s Utilitarianism?
A team values both giving members independence and maintaining close coordination. The tension between these opposing but valuable preferences has this name.
What’s Dialectic?