Chapter 1 & 2
What is the process of creating shared meaning called?
Communication
What is one example of implementing nonverbal behavior in your speech.
hand gestures, eye contact, voice inflation, facial expressions.
Where should your speech topic come from?
Persona interests/ passions
Before you can decide on a speech topic, you need to examine your:
Audience
What is an example of Secondary Research
Books, internet website, journal article, biography
What is the correct word for fear of public speaking?
Glossphobia
What is the most cognitive symptom of public speaking apprehension?
Negative Self-talk
What is an example of an audience's Demographics?
Age, gender, race, occupation, religion
When you tailor your speech’s information to the needs, interests, and expectations of your listeners, it is called:
Audience Adaptation
What is an example of Primary Research?
Personal Interviews, observations, or findings
Some real or perceived need that a speech might help to address is known as
Exigence
Statements alerting listeners about how a main point or subpoint is relevant to them are called
Listener-Relevance Links
The perception of a speaker as knowledgeable, trustworthy, and personable is called:
Credibility
What is adapting information in ways that help audience members realize its importance to them
Relevance
Only remembering what is said first and last is:
Primacy-Recency Effect
What is one method of reducing public speaking apprehension?
Systematic desensitization, visualization, and relaxation excercises
The cognitive process of receiving, attending to, constructing meaning from, and responding to messages is called
Listening
Assuming all members of a group have similar knowledge, behaviors, or beliefs simply because they belong to that group is called:
Sterotyping
What is the initial audience disposition?
the knowledge and opinions listeners have on your topic before you speak
any information that clarifies explains or otherwise adds depth or breadth to a topic
Evidence
what makes up the Rhetorical Situation?
The speaker, audience, and occasion
The physiological process that occurs when the brain detects sound waves is called
Hearing
A statement of what you want your audience to know, believe, or do
Speech goal
What is one way you can establish common ground with your audience?
rhetorical questions, using personal pronouns, Drawing from common expierence
What defines a reliable source?
VALID and ACCURATE information