Listening Skills
The process that involves both processing the message to decide on its meaning and retaining what you've heard and understood.
What is listening?
Requires you to consider your audience, the occasion, and the nature of your message when choosing language for a speech.
What is word choice (diction)?
Asserts that something is true or false.
What is a fact claim?
A speaker who exhibits this ancient quality is seen as knowledgeable, honest, and genuinely interested in doing the right thing for his or her audience.
What is ethos (credibility)?
The ways in which group members relate to one another and view their functions.
What are group dynamics?
The act of paying attention to an audience's nonverbal and verbal responses while giving a speech.
What is audience surveillance?
An association that comes to mind when people hear or read a particular word.
What is connotative meaning?
The process of selecting supporting arguments that will best persuade the audience in an ethical manner.
What is strategic discourse?
The process of generalizing from facts, instances, or examples and then making a claim based on that generalization.
What is inductive reasoning?
Members' tendency to accept ideas and information uncritically because of strong feelings of loyalty or single-mindedness within the group.
What is groupthink.
Occurs when audience members pretend to pay attention but are actually distracted by internal or external noise.
What is superficial listening?
A word that is general and can be confusing and ambiguous for your audience.
What is an abstract word?
The act of pushing your listeners to oppose your idea even more vigorously than they did before hearing your speech.
What is the boomerang effect?
This logical fallacy assumes (without proof) that a particular policy will lead to a second policy that is undesirable.
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
This effective approach to group decision-making has five steps, including defining/analyzing the problem and generating possible solutions.
What is the reflective-thinking process?
The feedback a speaker can use to improve her or his skills, like the feedback all of you gave each other in your peer evaluations.
What is constructive criticism?
Word choices that suggest prejudice or preconceptions about other people.
What is biased language?
This organizational pattern has two main points, one that establishes standards for the value judgment you are making, the other that applies those standards to the subject of your thesis.
What is the criteria-application pattern?
An argument that arouses fear in the minds of audience members.
What is a fear appeal?
This common approach for group presentations has several or all group members speaking to the audience in turn, with each group member taking responsibility for delivering a different part of the presentation.
What is a symposium?
Category 1 hurricane that formed in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall this month.
What is Tropical Storm Barry?
Former special prosecutor who is testifying today before the U.S. House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees.
Who is Robert Mueller?
Highly anticipated summer remake of the 1994 animated classic which, according to CNN, "has made an estimated $531 million worldwide in 10 days of release."
What is "The Lion King?"
Professional tennis player who recently beat Roger Federer to win his fifth Wimbledon title.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
Effective July 26, this individual will serve as Mizzou's interim vice chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, officially replacing Kevin McDonald.
Who is NaTashua R. Davis?