EASY 1
At their restaurant job as a host, Kai assumes that the three people standing near one another at the host stand are a group who would like a table together. When Kai says “table for three?”, the three people awkwardly explain that they are not together, and are waiting in line for separate tables. Kai’s mistake was likely due to our brains tendency to organize based on:
Difference
Similarity
Proximity
Relationality
Proximity
33. The two most common sensory channels are:
Sight & sound
Sound & touch
Touch & sight
Sound & taste
Sight & sound
In their speech on Yellowstone National Park, Alexandra tells the audience to close their eyes and imagine a serene forest full of wildlife. Alexandra then details the beauty of the national park, creating mental images of the park for the audience. Alexandra’s informative speech:
Informed through demonstration
Informed though explanation
Informed though definition
Informed through description
Informed through description
At the end of his informative speech on trains, Nathan says to the audience, “and now, we should all abandon cars as a form of transportation and begin using trains every day!” In his speech, Nathan failed to
Repackage information
Avoid information overload
Avoid persuasion
Gain his audience's attention
Avoid persuasion
. Vocal variety includes changes in all of the following EXCEPT-
Rate
Pitch
Volume
Articulation
Articulation
When President Alger gives a speech at JMU graduation, he speaks from a written document that contains his entire speech. This is an example of
Manuscript delivery
Memorized delivery
Impromptu delivery
Extemporaneous delivery
Manuscript delivery
Public speaking anxiety is a form of
Communication debilitation
Communication apprehension
Communication bias
Communication psyche
Communication apprehension
Alex wants to give a speech on the life of Kobe Bryant, beginning with his birth and ending with his death in 2020. Which organizational pattern would be best for Alex’s speech?
Spatial pattern
Cause-effect pattern
Chronological pattern
Topical pattern
Chronological pattern
Before I give a speech about firearm access in my SCOM 123 class, I give the class a survey about their general attitudes towards gun ownership. This is an example of a:
Psychological audience analysis
Misguided survey
Invasion of audience privacy
Demographic audience analysis
Psychological audience analysis
. I felt shy to tell my parents that I was fired from my job, so I told them I was “let go.” This is an example of:
Jargon
Slang
Evasion
Euphemism
Euphemism
You have been feeling dizzy lately, and your doctor tells you that you have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. You are still not sure what is wrong because the doctor used medical
Euphemisms
Abbreviations
Jargon
Neologisms
Jargon
The words ‘sec’ and ‘pic’ are examples of
Substitution slang
Reduction slang
Inversion slang
Attribution slang
Reduction slang
2. C-H-A-I-R is the ___________ for the object you are sitting on right now.
Symbol
Code
Grammatical sequence
Referent
Symbol
The steps of the perception process IN ORDER are:
Organizing, interpreting, selecting
Selecting, attributing, interpreting
Interpreting, selecting, attributing
Selecting, organizing, interpreting
Selecting, organizing, interpreting
When you give your informative speech, you earn an A and attribute this to your hard work and great speaking skills. When you give your persuasive speech, you earn a C- and attribute this to the other people in your group having dumb ideas. This is an example of:
Looking glass self
Self-concept
Self awareness
Self serving bias
Self serving bias
All of the models of communication include a feedback loop EXCEPT:
The transaction model
The transition model
The transmission model
The interaction model
The transmission model
Taylor Swift just announced the release of her album called “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”
via her instagram account. The type of communication best described here is:
Mass communication
Group communication
Public communication
Media communication
Mass communication
You are studying abroad in Italy and your waitress doesn’t understand your order because you speak English & she speaks Italian—what term best describes this?
Language bias
Environmental noise
Semantic noise
Interpretation bias
Semantic noisE
You are at D-Hall talking to the cashier about your plans for fall break. Mid-way through the conversation, your best friend joins and also shares their fall break plans. This is an example of:
Intrapersonal communication
Interpersonal communication
Group communication
Public communication
Interpersonal communication
True or false: In the interaction model of communication, both actors in the model serve as a sender/receiver and encoder/decoder
True
. Mariam is invited to give a TED talk to a live audience in Washington DC on the struggles of teaching first year college students. Later that day, the official TED organization posts a video of her speech on Youtube, where it goes viral and is praised as one of the best speeches ever given. Mariam’s speech is an example of:
Mass communication
Manuscript communication
Public communication
All of the above
A & C
A & C
Rashid is a famous internet influencer and is planning on giving his followers a tour of his new house. Which of the organizational speech patterns would be the most appropriate for Rashid to use?
Topical
Spatial
Informative
Chronological
Spatial
The databases of stored, related information that we use to interpret brand-new experiences are known as…
Interpreting
Memories
Schemata
Scripts
Schemata
The five canons of rhetoric were defined by Aristotle.
False
True
False
The degree to which something attracts our attention in a particular context is known as…
Attention-getters
Salience
Organization
Selection
Salience