The last part of a website, such as ".com", ".org" and ".edu"
What is a web domain?
100
Speaking from a written or memorized speech outline without having memorized the exact wording of the speech.
What is Extemporaneous Speaking?
100
The Microsoft Office program often used for visual presentations in college classes.
What is PowerPoint?
100
The principles of logic, credibility and emotional appeal.
What are logos, ethos and pathos?
100
Changing or reinforcing another person's attitudes, beliefs or values.
What is Persuasion?
200
A story or anecdote that provides an example of an idea, issue, or problem a speaker is discussing.
What is an Illustration?
200
About 93 percent of emotional meaning is derived from this type of communication.
What is Nonverbal Communication?
200
Using this implies that you use a light background and dark font, or the other way around, for your PowerPoint slides.
What is Contrast?
200
This concept is aided by dressing professionally, while appearing confident and prepared before the speaking begins.
What is Initial Credibility?
200
The concept that a person is much more likely to be persuaded through a direct, central route of reasoning, rather than indirect, peripheral routes of argumentation.
What is the Elaboration Likelihood Model?
300
The test used to evaluate an online source for its currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose.
What is the CRAAP Test?
300
The six primary emotions that are understood among all cultures.
What are Happiness, Anger, Surprise, Sadness, Disgust and Fear?
300
Aids such as drawings, photos, slides, maps, graphs, charts, whiteboards.
What are 2D presentation aids?
300
A persuasive strategy that might tap into commonly held beliefs and myths of the audience.
What is a Pathos (Emotional) Appeal?
300
Sense of mental discomfort that prompts a person to change when new information conflicts with previously organized thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
400
An individual, organization, or ?publication that reports ?information or data gathered ?by another entity.
What is a Secondary Source?
400
The degree of perceived physical or psychological closeness between people.
What is Immediacy?
400
A graph effective in showing the growth or decline of data over a period of time.
What is a Line Graph?
400
The logical reasoning process that takes specific, observed instances and combines them into a general conclusion of probable future outcomes.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
400
The concept that assumes that a person's physiological, safety and social wants have to be fulfilled before they can address self-esteem and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
500
A comparison between two essentially dissimilar things that share some common feature on which the comparison depends.
What is a Figurative Analogy?
500
Behaviors such as making eye contact, making appropriate gestures, and adjusting physical distance that enhance the quality of the relationship between speaker and listeners.
What are Immediacy Behaviors?
500
The use of images as an integrated element in the total communication effort a speaker makes to achieve the speaking goal.
What is Visual Rhetoric?
500
The concept in deductive reasoning where one applies a major premise to a minor premise and arrives at a conclusion.
What is a Syllogism?
500
A concept that categorizes listener responses according to latitudes of acceptance.