Ch 4
Listening Skills
Listening Skills
When one person consistently interrupts another: (a) interruptive listening (b) distraction
What is interruptive listening?
Factors in a specific speech setting that you can observe or discover before you give the speech: (a) demographic characteristics (b) situational characteristics
What are situational characteristics?
The part where you present your main points and support them with examples, narratives, testimony, and other materials: (a) conclusion (b) body
What is the body?
This requires consideration of audience, occasion, and nature of one’s message when choosing language for a speech: (a) word choice (diction) (b) pattern
What is word choice (diction)?
Anything beyond your spoken words that you employ to help your audience members understand and remember your message: (a) common aid (b) presentation aid
What is a presentation aid?
Receiving messages in a passive way: (a) listening (b) Hearing
What is hearing?
This refers to the number of people who will be present for your speech: (a) audience size (b) audience analysis
What is audience size?
Materials designed to prove or substantiate your main points: (a) supporting points (b) key points
What are supporting points?
Unnecessary words in a presentation: (a) abuse of words (b) verbal clutter
What is verbal clutter?
A visual representation of geography and can contain as much or as little information as you wish: (a) diagram (b) map
What is a map?
This occurs when listeners feel overwhelmed by your message and find it too difficult to follow: (a) interruptive listening (b) defeated listening
What is defeated listening?
The length of time you have to deliver your speech: (a) speech time (b) presentation time
What is presentation time?
This helps your audience understand the link between particular events and their outcomes: (a) listening pattern (b) casual pattern
What is a casual pattern?
This grabs the attention of your audience with words and phrases that appeal to all the senses—sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste: (a) vivid language (b) oral language
What is vivid language?
A drawing that details an object or action, as well as arrangements and relations among its parts: (a) diagram (b) line graph
What is a diagram?
Actively paying attention to what you’re hearing: (a) listening (b) hearing
What is listening?
The time of day or day of the week when your audience members will be listening to your presentation: (a) body clock (chronemics) (b) correct time of day
What is body clock (chronemics)?
A sentence that indicates you are moving from one part of your speech to the next: (a) relocation (b) transition
What is transition?
Implicit comparisons of unlike objects by identifying one object with the other: (a) metaphor (b) simile
What is a metaphor?
A visual representation of the relationship among different numbers, measurements, or quantities: (a) pie chart (b) graph
What is a graph?
Your ability to remember what you have heard: (a) recollection (b) retention
What is retention?
The setting where your audience will listen to your speech: (a) podium (b) location (forum)
What is a location (forum)?
A word or phrase within a sentence that helps your audience understand your speech’s structure: (a) signpost (b) preview
What is a signpost?
A generalization based on the false assumption that characteristics displayed by some members of a group are shared by all members of that group: (a) imagery (b) stereotype
What is a stereotype?
A text-based visual that demonstrates the direction of information, processes, and ideas: (a) bar graft (b) flowchart
What is a flowchart?