Communication, Apprehension, and Identity
True or False: First impressions are often easily forgotten.
False: First impressions often form quickly and stay salient in a person's mind.
When looking out into the crowd during his performance, Dave notices a diverse audience of different races, religious affiliations, ages, and abilities. In these few seconds, Dave is engaging in this type of analysis.
What is a demographic analysis?
Of these components, which is NOT included in an interview: public speaking, listening, interpersonal communication, and small group dynamics.
Trick questions: they are all present in the practice of interviewing!
The author's name, the credentials of the author or their organization, the date the information was published, and the title of the article: of these 4 components, which one is NOT required to cite a source out loud?
The title of the article!
This compliance-gaining strategy relies on someone's level of obligation to return a gesture or a favor that affected them.
Name a demographic trait that is a characteristic of someone's social identity.
Ability, gender, race, religion, etc.
During election season, news stations will gather groups of voters who are undecided to watch political debates. This term is used to describe an audience that is impartial with no particular feelings or attitudes towards a given subject.
What is a neutral audience?
I decide to wave to my friend instead of saying hello, which means I'm using the following nonverbal technique.
What is substituting?
(Accenting - Enhances/augments a message)
(Complementing - Illustrates a message)
This component of the Toulmin Model provides information or evidence to help support one's conclusion.
What is data?
Whereas the Dunning-Kruger effect refers to the tendency people have to think they are experts in a particular field or area of knowledge, this concept describes how we tend to actively ignore data that contradicts our beliefs about the world.
Whereas self-fulfilling prophecy describes the process by which we speak a positive outcome into existence, this concept describes how we can reduce apprehension by slowly getting used to something.
Rather than reading his speech out loud, Jason decides to use shortened notes and conversational asides to engage with the audience outside of his notecards, making use of the following method of delivery.
What is extemporaneous style/delivery? (know all of these: memorized, impromptu, and manuscript are the others)
Whereas an information-gathering interview is used to discover facts about someone or something, this type of interview is best used to help two parties reach some sort of agreement.
What is a problem-solving interview?
The following three categories are the proper way to classify formal persuasive speeches, and they're typically described as questions.
What are questions of fact, value, and policy?
This type of syllogism best describes the following argument:
The cake has either strawberry or vanilla frosting.
The cake does not have vanilla frosting.
Therefore, the cake has strawberry frosting.
What is a disjunctive syllogism?
This term describes the fear or anxiety associated with real or anticipated communication with others.
What is communication apprehension?
As an orator, Martin Luther King Jr. continued to use his foundation as a Baptist minister when discussing the economy and racial injustice. His iconic vocal patterns, movements, and cadences can be described with this term.
What is rhythm?
Your resume provides recruiters with an overview of your job history and your current qualifications, but this document allows to elaborate on your accomplishments further.
What is a cover letter? (Look over the resume dos and don'ts section in your book!)
While delivering an informative speech on the history and formation of Christmas, I decide to describe in detail all the holidays that Christmas is not, including Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice. This rant would be making use of the following type of supporting material.
What is a non-example?
During class, we went over the Tuckman Model for the stages of group communication, which are Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning. This particular stage in the model is when your group is most likely to experience conflict.
What is the storming phase?
Similarly to Robert Kennedy, we may find ourselves having to present information or ideas to an audience with a different cultural background. This strategy can help facilitate that exchange more effectively.
What is building common ground?
Mickey Mouse's natural tone is somewhat higher than the husky baritone of Morgan Freeman or Barry White. This concept refers to these vocal disparities.
What is pitch?
In communicative situations, and especially while interviewing, we often have the freedom to answer and express ourselves in a variety of ways. This ability to choose while communicating is formally known as this.
What is agency?
When deciding which sources to use for their speech, Sam thinks through all possible options, content, and information before choosing which research articles to include. This concept describes the kind of processing style that allows people to take their time before making important decisions.
What is central processing?
This argument structure takes the listener from broad claims or concepts to more specific findings and phenomena.
What is deductive reasoning?