Ch 1: Becoming a Public Speaker
Name one benefit of benefit (according to the book) of becoming a public speaker.
Advancing professional goals, enhancing career as a student, or finding new opportunities for civic engagement.
What does analyzing the audience involve?
Learning about audience attitudes, motivations, and demographics like age, gender, and socioeconomic status
List one cause (given in the book/slides) of speech anxiety.
Lack of positive experience, feeling different, being the center of attention
True or False? Offensive speech is legal under the first amendment. Explain your answer.
False. Speech that incites people to violence, blackmail, perjury, slander, and obscenity are all illegal as well as immoral
What is selective listening?
When people pay attention to certain messages in a speech while ignoring others
Give two examples of ways that public speaking draws on conversational skills you already have.
What is the first step to any preparing any speech?
Analyzing the audience
Fear of public speaking arises from the physiological reaction to the ________-or-________ response, the body's automatic response to threatening situations.
Fight-or-flight
What is the difference between copyrighted material and material in the public domain?
Copyrighted material is protected by law and has requirements like payment before use
Public domain materials are past copyright and free for all to use
Explain one strategy to practice active listening
There are many forms of communication. Name and explain two of them.
Small group communication- involves a small number of people who see and speak directly to one another
Mass communication: between a speaker and large audience of unknown people
Public speaking: Speaker delivers a message to people present during the speech
To inform, to persuade, or to mark a special occasion
List 3 of the 4 types of anxiety that come from speaking
Pre-Preparation anxiety
Preparation anxiety
Pre-performance anxiety
Performance anxiety
Speech that can be proved to be defamatory and or potentially harmful to an individual's reputation is called
slander
Explain two obstacles to active listening
What is rhetorical situation?
The circumstance calling for a public response
When practicing a speech, you should practice your _____________ and your ______________ delivery.
Verbal and nonverbal
To ease pre-performance anxiety immediately before speaking, practice this mental technique:
positive self-talk
List and explain 3 different fallacies
Straw man, slippery slope, hasty generalization, post hoc, genetic fallacy, circular argument, begging the claim, either/or, ad hominem, bandwagon, red herring, moral equivalence
Name the type of listening where people decide in advance that they won't like what the speaker is going to say or they know better
Defensive listening
In public speaking as an interactive communication process, what is the difference between the message and the shared meaning?
Message is the content of the communication process; thoughts and ideas. What the speaker wants to convey
Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience. What they actually do convey
Know the graphic on page 8!
What are coordinating and subordinating points?
What an outline is based on. The main ideas and supporting details
What is the anxiety stop time technique?
Allowing the anxiety to present itself for a few minutes, declaring confidence, and proceeding.
Which fallacy means that the conclusion a speaker needs to prove is validated within the claim? Ex. Filthy and polluting coal should be banned.
Begging the claim
What is dialogic communication?
the open sharing of ideas in an atmosphere of respect