History of PS
Speech Anxiety
Speech Ethics
Audience Analysis
Outlining & Organization
100

The content of communication

What is the message?

100

The body's automatic response to threatening or fear inducing events.

What is the fight or flight response?

100

The study of moral conduct and how a given group believes people should act toward one another.

What is ethics?

100

Our most enduring judgements about what is good in life.

What are values?

100

A sentence that clearly expresses the the central idea of your speech and previews the main points.

What is the thesis statement?

200

The sender, the person who creates the message

Who is the source?

200

A form of PSA that arises when a speaker begins to prepare a speech.

What is preparation anxiety?

200

A Greek word meaning character

What is ethos>

200

The statistical characteristics of a given population

What are demographics?

200

This restates the the thesis and reiterates how the main points confirm it.

What is the conclusion?

300

The recipient if the source's message (the audience)

Who is the receiver?

300

The practice of summoning feelings and actions consistent with successful performance.

What is visualization? 

300

Speech involving issues of importance to the larger community

What is public discourse?

300
The study and analysis of audience members' attitudes, beliefs, and values. 

Psychographics

300

These are used to number the main points in an outline.

What are roman numerals?

400

The art of public speaking and persuasion

What is rhetoric?

400

When a speaker thinks his/her anxiety is more noticeable than it is.

What is the illusion of transparency?

400

Any offensive communication that is directed against people's racial, ethnic, religious, gender, or other characteristics. 

What is hate speech?

400

Income, occupation, education make up this

What is socioeconomic status?

400

These are points of equal importance and are indicated by parallel alignment

What are coordinate points?

500

This Greek philosopher is known as the "father of public speaking"

Who is Aristotle?

500

This is the number of times that someone needs to practice a speech before they begin to feel confident.

What is 6 times?

500

The use of other people's ideas or words without acknowledging sources

What is plagiarism?

500

A common bond between you and your audience

What is identification?

500

This is an organizational pattern that arranges main points according to their occurrence in time relative to each other.

What is chronological?