Groups
Appeals
Reasoning
Other Persuasion
Larson's Faves
100
Three or more people
What is a group?
100
The father of persuasion who coined the terms logos, ethos, pathos.
Who is Aristotle?
100
What fallacy is demonstrated here: "You should try online dating. Everyone is doing it these days"
What is the bandwagon fallacy?
100
If your audience is undecided about your topic, they may be one of these three things.
What is uninformed, unconcerned, or adamently neutral?
100
Occurs when the outcome of the group is greater than any individual outcome.
What is synergy?
200
One function of this category of group roles is to manage interaction.
What are maintenance roles?
200
Type of logical appeal utilizes positive or negative emotions to persude an audience.
What is pathos?
200
What fallacy is demonstrated here: "Jonathon should not get an A in this class because he is shallow and pendantic"
What is ad hominem?
200
These claims involve what courses of action that should or should not be taken.
What is a policy claim?
200
This person coined the phrase "groupthink"
Who is Irving Janis?
300
A group that focuses on support and encouragement.
What is a support group?
300
This term means that a speaker utilizes their competence, character, and goodwill to demonstrate their credibility.
What is ethos?
300
This is also known as the Either-Or fallacy.
What is false dilemma?
300
What type of argument is demonstrated here: "Recycling on campus has decreased. People are using the designated recycling bins as garbage cans."
What is an argument by causation?
300
The stage of group development where norms become established.
What is the norming stage?
400
A deterioration of mental efficiency that results from in-group pressure to agree with the group.
What is groupthink?
400
This appeals to an audience by logic and reasoning.
What is logos?
400
This claim deals with what is true or not true, what is real or not real, and what exists or doesn't exist.
What is a claim of fact?
400
What type of argument is made here: "College tuition in the US is very high. Canada offers many tuition reductions and discounts. If such programs work there, they may be able to work here too.
What is an argument by analogy?
400
What is wrong with this citation of a book: Larson, A. M. (2013). Teaching speech: How to be awesome. Chicago, IL: McGraw-Hill
Book title should be italicized.
500
Norms that may never be actually discussed by the group?
What are informal norms?
500
This is commonly used in ads and commercials.
What is pathos?
500
This claim discusses the worth, importance, or significance of something.
What is a claim of value?
500
Monroe's Motivated Sequence organization pattern begins with this.
What is attention?
500
Occurs when someone values their own culture above others.
What is ethnocentrism?