Speaking Process & Benefits
Speaking is a ____________ process.
What is active?
Define communicate.
What is to make common to many, share, impart, divide? You share or make common your knowledge or ideas with someone else.
Define referent.
What is the object or idea for which a symbol stands?
Define group communication.
What is communication between three or more people?
The ___________ is the decoder of the message.
What is the listener?
Define critical thinking.
What is reasonable reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do?
Communication is both a ___________ and a ______________.
What is a process and product?
Define communication.
What is the sharing of meaning by sending and receiving symbolic cues?
How does the triangle of meaning relate to public speaking?
What is in order to avoid communication problems, public speakers must ensure that the message their audience hears is the message they intend to share?
Define public communication.
What is communication between one person and an audience (face to face)?
Define feedback.
What are all the messages, verbal and nonverbal, sent by listeners to the speaker?
What are two factors that shape the environment?
What are the occasions during which the communication occurs and the physical environment where the communication occurs?
Name three personal benefits you will gain from a public speaking class.
What is college success?
What are important skills such as analyzing, researching, organizing, & delivering?
What is to help build your confidence?
Who contributed to the making of the Triangle of Meaning?
Who is Charles Ogden and I. A. Richards?
Define intrapersonal communication.
What is communication within yourself?
In the communication Elements Model, the speaker is the ___________ of the message.
What is the sender?
Define channel.
What is the way a message is sent? For example, voice, eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, movement, etc.
What are the three forms of noise?
What is physical, psychological, & psychological?
List three professional benefits you will acquire in a public speaking class.
What is helping secure employment and advance in your career?
What is develop public speaking skills?
What is to develop listening skills?
Define interpreter.
What is the person who is communicating with words or other symbols? This can be the speaker or the listener.
Define interpersonal communication.
What is communication between people (usually two)?
Ideas that are communicated by the speaker is called the ______________.
What is the message?
Define environment.
What is the physical setting and situation in which communication occurs?
Why is critical thinking so important?
What is it teaches us to question, analyze, critique, problem solve, and generate ideas?
How does public speaking help you as a member of society?
What is it helps create a society of informed, active citizens?
Define symbol.
What is anything to which people attach or assign a meaning? It can be pictures, drawings, objects, words, or even colors
Define mass communication.
What is communication aimed at a larger audience that cannot be delivered in a single place (i.e. print and/or electronic media)?
What are the two characteristics of mass communication?
What is the audience feedback is always delayed, and the method of communication is very important because you want to reach as many audience members as possible?
Define noise.
What is anything that distracts from effective communication; some form is always present?
What is ONE characteristic of critical thinkers?
What is they have to care?