Chapter 1 - Speaking in Public
The person who begins the communication process by presenting a message.
What is Speaker?
Presenting another person's language or ideas as one's own.
What is Plagiarism?
The physiological process of sound waves reaching the ears and being processed by the brain.
What is Hearing?
Assuming that every member of a group shares the same characteristics.
What is Stereotyping?
The major ideas developed in the body of a speech.
What are Main Points?
Whatever a speaker communicates to an audience.
What is Message?
The branch of philosophy concerned with questions of right and wrong in human conduct.
What is Ethics?
Paying close attention to and making sense of what we hear.
What is Listening?
Examining audience traits such as age, religion, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and group membership.
What is Demographic Audience Analysis?
Organizing main points first around a problem and then around its solution.
What is Problem-Solution Order?
The person who receives the speaker's message.
What is Listener?
Restating or summarizing another person's ideas in one's own words
What is Paraphrase?
Listening for pleasure or enjoyment, such as when hearing music or a story.
What is Appreciative Listening?
Questionnaire items that allow respondents to answer in their own words.
What is Open-Ended Questions?
Organizing main points to show a cause-and-effect relationship.
What is Causal Order?
Focused, organized thinking about the logical relationships among ideas.
What is Critical Thinking?
A connective that signals the end of one thought and the movement to another.
What is Transition?
Listening to offer emotional support to another person.
What is Empathetic Listening?
Questionnaire items that ask respondents to indicate a degree of agreement or disagreement.
What is Scale Questions?
Organizing main points according to a time sequence or a series of steps.
What is Chronological Order?
The means by which a message travels from the speaker to the listener.
What is Channel?
Organizing main points according to location, direction, or physical arrangement.
What is Spatial Order?
Listening to understand a speaker's message.
What is Comprehensive Listening?
Keeping the audience foremost in mind throughout speech preparation and presentation.
What is Audience-centeredness?
Dividing the speech topic into logical and consistent subtopics.
What is Topical Order?