A politician giving a speech about the need for stricter border control argues that immigrants do not make the effort to learn the language and do not want to work for a living.
What is stereotyping and scapegoating?
100
Visualizing yourself giving a speech, a little nervous but in control, is an example of this technique?
What is positive imagery?
100
These things are examples of auditory distractions.
What are people coughing,cell phone ringing, or noise in the hallway?
100
Phrases that help you get from one part of your speech to another are called this.
What are transitions?
200
"I know you people don't believe me but you're wasting your time and money if you pay a consultant to critique your resume" is an example of not doing this.
What is respecting your audience?
200
This is the difference between hearing and listening.
What is "when your ears pick up sound waves" and "making sense of what is being transmitted"?
200
Your friend gave a speech in class and was really frustrated that his or her classmates were on their phones for most of the talk. What could he or she have done to prevent or reduce this problem?
What is ask the audience members to turn off electronic devices before the class begins?
200
Identify the problem with this statement: To help my audience brighten their relationships"
What is make your statement more precise?
300
A friend says "I don't know what I did wrong. I spent hours writing the speech, hours researching the speech, and hours memorizing the speech but it didn't go over well." Your friend made this mistake.
What is never memorize the speech?
300
Analyzing your listeners and adapting to their needs is called this.
What is customizing?
300
A friend is giving a speech and throughout the speech, she fidgets, her voice shakes, she repeats herself and she apologizes for her nervousness. Of these things, this is the most distracting.
What is apologizing for nervousness?
300
What is the primary function of an introduction?
What is engage the audience's interest and state your purpose?
400
Your friend arrived in time for her speech, checked all of her visual/audio equipment, and took several deep breaths before beginning to speech. However, she still had a lot of trouble connecting to her audience. She could have done this differently.
What is arrived early and spoken with several members in her audience?
400
The belief that one's own cultural group is superior to other groups.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
Name three things to consider when considering audience's comfort level.
What is temperature, hunger, and exhaustion?
400
Identify the problem with this purpose statement: "To persuade the audience to support efforts to halt the destruction of rain forests in Central and South America, and to demand higher standards of water purity in the United States"
What is limit your purpose statement to one idea?
500
Name at least three of the biggest mistakes made by speakers.
What is failure to tailor speech to needs of audience, using Powerpoint ineffectively, speaking too long, being poorly prepared, being dull.
500
What are the criteria of the fair use doctrine?
What is 1)use only a small portion of copyrighted work 2)purpose is primarily educational, rather than commercial 3) you do not cause economic harm to the copyrighted work
500
Name two strategies you can employ if you have an audience member with mobility impairments.
What is remove barriers that would limit wheelchair access. never patronize, shake hands and do not lean on wheelchair or use it as an arm rest.
500
Identify the error and revise: "To explain to my listeners the chemical composition of vegetable oils"
What is "don't be too technical" and "to explain to my audience how to choose the right vegetable oil for cooking different types of food"