General Vocabulary
Listening
Mass Communication
Logical Fallices
Public Speaking
100
The process of sending and receiving messages.
What is Communication?
100
This is rewording an original passage.
What is Paraphrasing?
100
Evidence that implies, but does not prove something.
What is circumstantial evidence?
100
This is a faulty argument based on incomplete or unrepresentable information.
What is a Hasty Generalization?
100
The statistical characteristics of humans.
What is a Demographic?
200
How one sees things.
What is Perception?
200
Examples of this would include, tuning out dull topics, faking attention, and yielding to distractions.
What are Bad Listening Habits?
200
Using a specific point to make a generalization.
What is inductive reasoning?
200
This is an erroneous assertion that will lead to an error in deduction.
What is False Premises?
200
The process of giving something that is not human, human like traits.
What is Personification?
300
Ways of expressing attitude or thoughts, using facial expressions or body movements.
What is Nonverbal Communication?
300
Examples of this are, critical, empathic, and appreciative.
What Kinds of Listening?
300
Groups of people labeled by a preconceived notion.
What is Stereotypes?
300
This is an argument that assumes whatever is trying to be proven is true.
What is Begging the Question?
300
The process of repeating constant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
400
These are transmissions that take place between two or more people at the same time.
What is Interpersonal Communication?
400
This is the automatic reaction of the senses and the nervous system to what is said.
What is Hearing?
400
Material designed to split the truth or deceive the audience.
What is Propaganda?
400
A comparison of two things that are not really the same.
What is a False Analogy?
400
Special questions not meant to be answered.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
500
This is an inner dialogue conducted with oneself.
What is Intrapersonal Communication?
500
This is the receiving part of the communication process.
What is Listening?
500
Using syllogism to prove a point.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
500
An assumption that because two things occur, that one causes the other.
What is mistaken causality?
500
This is the process by which a speaker considers the needs and expectations of the audience that will be listening to the speech.
What is Audience Analysis?