Chap 1
A set of beliefs shared by a group behaviors are correct or incorrect
A. Ethics B. Worldview
A. Ethics
The generation of ideas for use in a speech
A. invention B. memory
A. invention
The belief that people should exhibit the same behavior in all situations
A. ethical absolution B. situational ethics
A. ethical absolution
Receiving messagesin a passive way
A. hearing B. listening
A. hearing
Listeners will be relatively motionless as you speak
A. stationary audience B. mobile audience
A. stationary audience
A communicative exchange in which all participants continuously send and receive messages
A. encode B. transaction
B. transaction
Refers to structuring ideas to convey them effectively to an audience
A. arrangement B. topic
A. arrangement
When a speaker reveals only part of the truth and then mixes it with a lie
A. false inference B. half-truth
B. half-truth
Actively paying attention to what you are hearing
A. processing B. listening
B. listening
Cultural background that is usually associated with religion, national orgin, and language
A. ethnicity B. location
A. ethnicity
The "lens" through which he or she sees and interprets reality
A. culture B. worldview
B. worldview
The choice of language that will best express speakers ideas to the audience
A. style B. memory
A. style
Another source of false inference
A. omission B. ethics
A. omission
Actively think about a message you're receiveing
A. processing B. nonlistening
A. processing
Beliefs, values, and experiences that you share with your listeners
A. prior exposure B. common ground
B. common ground
The ideas that he or she conveys to the audience constitute the
A. message B. source
A. message
Refers to the speakers use of his or her voice and body during the actual presentation of a speech
A. topic B. delivery
B. delivery
Presenting anothers words as your own is
A. paraphaseing B. plagerism
B. plagerism
Your ability to remember what you've heard
A. internal noise B. retention
B. retention
Opposes your message or you personally and will therefore resist listening to your speech
A. neutral audience B. hostile audience
B. hostile audience
The source communicates the encoded message through a
A. receivers B. channel
B. channel
The subject you will address in your speech
A. topic B. research
A. topic
Information that is widely known
A. common knowledge B. hasty genralization
A. common knowledge
Not paying attention to what your hearing
A. nonlistening B. external noise
A. nonlistening
Measures the intensity of feelings on a given issue by offering a range of fixed responses
A. scaled question B. open-ended question
A. scaled question