A method to reduce apprehension by developing a mental picture of yourself giving a masterful speech.
What is visualization?
100
Pitch, volume, rate and quality.
What are important ways to use your voice to speak effectively?
100
Information that is new to audience members.
What is intellectually stimulating?
100
The informative method used to creat an accurate, vivid, verbal picture of an object, geographic feature, setting, person, event, or image.
What is the description method?
200
Stuttering, shakey knees and rapid or pounding heartbeats.
What are physcial symptoms of speech apprehension?
200
A method to reduce apprehension by gradually visualizing and engaging in increasingly more frightening speaking events.
What is systematic desensitization?
200
How a message is communicated orally and visually through the use of voice and body to be conversational and animated.
What is delivery?
200
Statements that clarify how a particular point may be important to a listener.
What is listener relevance links?
200
An informative presentation that provides carefully researched, in-depth knowledge about a complex topic.
What is expository speech?
300
Feeling anxious, worried or upset.
What are emotional symptoms of speech apprehension?
300
A method to systematically rebuild thoughts about public speaking by replacing anxiety-arousing negative self-talk with anxiety-reducing positive self-talk.
What is cognitive restructuring?
300
A voice in which the pitch, volume, and rate remain constant, with no word, idea, or sentence differing significantly from any other.
What is monotone?
300
Using information in a way that yields different or original ideas and insights.
What is creative information?
300
A method of informing that explains something by focusing on how it is similar and different from other things.
What is the comparison and contrast method?
400
Negative self-talk.
What is a cognitive sypmtom of speech apprension?
400
Seeing a speech as an opportunity to talk with a number of people about a topic that is important to the speaker and to them.
What is Communication Orientation?
400
Facial expressions, gestures, movement, eye contact, posture, poise, and appearance.
What are the body language elements that affect your delivery?
400
Using presentational aids, repetition, transitions, humor, and mnemonics and acronyms.
What are ways to make your speech memorable?
400
A method of informing that explains something by recounting events or stories.
What is the narration method?
500
Negative self-talk, previous experience, modeling and negative reinforcement.
What are the leading causes of speech apprehension?
500
The systematic teahing of the skills associated with preparing and delivering an effective public speech, with the intention of improving speaking competence and thereby reducing public speaking apprehension.
What is public speaking skills training?
500
The way your attire and grooming affects the way the audience perceives you.
What is appearance?
500
A speech that has a goal to explain or describe facts, truths, and principles in a way that increases understanding.
What is an informative speech?
500
A method of informing that explains something by showing how it is done, by displaying the stages of a process, or by depicting how something works.