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The line of thought we use to make judgments based on facts and inferences from the world around us.
What is reasoning?
100
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. A form of rhetorical proof that concerns the nature of the audience’s feelings and appeals to their emotions. 2. A form of rhetorical proof that appeals to ethics and concerns the qualifications and personality of the speaker. 3. A form of rhetorical proof that appeals to logic and is directed at the audience’s reasoning on a topic.
1. What is pathos? 2. What is ethos? 3. What is logos?
100
The act of using manipulation, threats, intimidation, or violence to gain compliance.
What is coercion?
100
Speech that is intended to influence the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of an audience.
What is Persuasive speaking?
100
The process of influencing others’ attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors on a given topic.
What is persuasion?
200
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. Our general evaluations of people, ideas, objects, or events. 2. The ways in which people perceive reality; our feelings about what is true and real and how confident we are about the existence or validity of something. 3. Observable communication, including both verbal and nonverbal messages; the manner in which we act or function in response to our attitudes and beliefs
1. What is attitudes? 2. What is beliefs? 3. What is behaviors?
200
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. An audience that opposes the speaker’s message and perhaps the speaker personally; the hardest type of audience to persuade. 2. An audience that already agrees with the speaker’s viewpoints and message and is likely to respond favorably to the speech 3. An audience that falls between the other two types of audiences; neither supports nor opposes the speaker.
1. What is hostile audience? 2. What is receptive audience? 3. What is neutral audience?
200
A three-line deductive argument that draws a specific conclusion from two general premises (a major and a minor premise).
What is syllogism?
200
A hierarchical structure that identifies needs in five categories, from low (immature) to high (mature).
What is hierarchy of needs?
200
An invalid or deceptive form of reasoning.
What is logical fallacy?
300
A logical fallacy that is employed when a speaker attests that some event must clearly occur as a result of another event without showing any proof that the second event is caused by the first.
What is slippery slope fallacy?
300
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY** 1. The line of thought that occurs when one draws specific conclusions from a general argument. 2. The line of thought that occurs when one draws general conclusions based on specific evidence.
1. What is deductive reasoning? 2. What is inductive reasoning?
300
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. A claim about something’s worth. 2. A claim of what is or what is not. 3. A claim about what goal, policy, or course of action should be pursued.
1. What is proposition of value? 2. What is proposition of fact? 3. What is proposition of policy?
300
A logical fallacy in which the speaker uses tradition as proof, suggesting that listeners should agree with his or her point because "that’s the way it has always been."
What is appeal to tradition?
300
The theory that a speaker’s ability to successfully persuade an audience depends on the audience’s current attitudes or disposition toward the topic.
What is social judgement theory?
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An organizing pattern for persuasive speaking in which the speaker shows that his or her viewpoint is superior to other viewpoints on the topic.
What is comparative advantage pattern?
400
A logical fallacy in which the speaker presents arguments that no one can verify because they are not accompanied by valid evidence.
What is begging the question?
400
The range of positions on a topic that are acceptable or unacceptable to an audience based on their anchor position.
What is latitude of acceptance and rejection?
400
An organizing pattern for persuasive speaking in which the speaker begins by presenting main points that are opposed to his or her own position and then follows them with main points that support his or her own position.
What is refutational organizational pattern?
400
**TRIPLE JEOPARDY** 1. A model that highlights the importance of relevance to persuasion and holds that listeners process persuasive messages by one of two routes, depending on how important the message is to them. 2. Thinking critically about the speaker’s message, questioning it, and seriously considering acting on it; occurs when listeners are motivated and personally involved in the content of a message. 3. Giving little thought to a message or even dismissing it as irrelevant, too complex to follow, or simply unimportant; occurs when listeners lack motivation to listen critically or are unable to do so.
1. What is Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM)? 2. What is central processing? 3. What is peripheral processing?
500
Accepting a statement as true because it is popular.
What is bandwagon fallacy?
500
A logical fallacy that entails attacking a person instead of the person’s arguments.
What is ad hominem fallacy?
500
A logical fallacy that entails extending an argument beyond its logical limits to the level of absurdity.
What is reduction to the absurd?
500
A fallacy in which the speaker presents only two alternatives on a subject and fails to acknowledge other alternatives; also known as the false dilemma fallacy.
What is either-or fallacy?
500
A fallacy in which the speaker relies on irrelevant information for his or her argument, thereby diverting the direction of the argument.
What is red herring fallacy?