Retaining information, ethos, interest, and time management.
What is the purpose of a visual aid?
100
The Microsoft presentation method where information is presented in a slide show.
What is Powerpoint?
100
The best color scheme when designing a poster.
What are neutral colors such as blue, tan, and white?
100
A graph that best represents trends and information that changes over time.
What is a line graph?
100
Using no more than eight words in a line and eight lines in a slide.
What is the eight by eight rule?
200
Presentation aids allow listeners to engage the ______ side of their brains — the hemisphere that plays an important role in such non-verbal tasks as visualization, music, and drawing.
What is the right side of the human brain?
200
An inanimate object used to capture the audience's attention.
What is a prop?
200
Colors that should be used to emphasize important points.
What are bold, bright colors?
200
A graph the best compares quantities and magnitudes?
What is a bar graph?
200
The principle that says you should apply the same design to all of your presentation aids.
What is the principle of continuity?
300
The character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc.
What is ethos?
300
A representation of numerical value in visual form.
What is a graph?
300
Focusing on one major point per aid and displaying information in such a way that the audience can quickly, easily read and understand.
What is simplicity?
300
A graph that best shows proportions.
What is a pie graph?
300
Colors that can be used to de-emphasize the less important parts of a presentation.
What are light, softer colors?
400
Using the time allotted wisely and being prepared to present.
What is time management?
400
A type of visual aid that demonstrates how something works or operates.
What is a diagram?
400
A maximum of three to four colors all of the same hue.
What is the amount of colors that should be used per aid?
400
A chart that is best used to diagram a procedure or process.
What is a flowchart?
400
Colors that create strong emotion and draw attention, thus should be used to highlight.
What are warm colors, like yellow and orange?
500
We retain _____ percent more of what we see and hear than what we simply hear.
What is thirty percent?
500
A visual presentation aid where sound, images, video, and text are combined into single production.
What is multimedia?
500
36 point, clean, concise typeface.
What is the font that should be used as a header in a presentation?
500
A chart that is best used to illustrate hierarchical relationships.
What is an organizational chart?
500
Pre-selected designs by electronic aids that are constructed to effectively present information.