Similarities and Differences between Public Speaking & Conversation
Speech Communication Process
Key Terms
Exam 1: Study Guide
100
Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation.
What is Positive Nervousness?
100
Organizing your thoughts logically.
What is a Similarity.
100
The person who is presenting a n oral message to a listener.
What is a Speaker?
100
Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
What is Stage Fright?
100
Which element of communication hurts the communication process?
What is Interference?
200
Biggest part of Stage Fright.
What is Fear of the Unknown?
200
Telling a story for maximum impact.
What is a Similarity?
200
Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else.
What is a Message?
200
Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation.
What is visualization?
200
A healthy sign of getting ready for good effort.
What is nervousness?
300
The well-known power of positive thinking.
What is confidence?
300
Requires more formal language.
What is a Difference?
300
The messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker.
What is Feedback?
300
A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
What is Adrenaline?
300
The means by which a message is communicated.
What is the channel?
400
There is no such thing as this.
What is the perfect speech?
400
It is highly structured.
What is a Difference?
400
The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
What is Situation?
400
The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.
What is Frame of Reference?
400
Often blocks communication between speakers and listeners of different cultural backgrounds.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Nurtures itself.
What is confidence?
500
Tailoring your message to your audience.
What is a Similarity?
500
The person who receives the communicated message.
Who is the listener?
500
Focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion.