Speech Exam 1

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Captive Audience

Back 1

Individuals who feel they must attend an event.

Front 2

Sources of Information

Back 2

Presenting a speech in which the speaker seeks to deepen understanding, raise awareness, or increase knowledge about a topic.

Front 3

Complete Sentence outline

Back 3

Formal outline using full sentences for all points developed after researching the speech and identifying supporting materials; includes a speech’s topic, general purpose, specific purpose, thesis, introduction, main points, subpoints, conclusion, transitions, and references.

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Keyword Outline

Back 4

Term associated with a topic and used to search for information related to that topic; identifies a subject or point of primary interest or concern.

Front 5

Working Outline

Back 5

Outline that guides you during the initial stages of topic development, helping to keep you focused on your general purpose and clarify your specific purpose.

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Presentation Outline

Back 6

Outline that distills a complete-sentence outline, listing only the words and phrases that will guide the speaker through the main parts of the speech and the transitions between them.

Front 7

Relabeling

Back 7

Assigning more positive words or phrases to the physical reactions and feelings associated with speech anxiety.

Front 8

Visualization

Back 8

Imagining a successful communication event by thinking through a sequence of actions in a positive, concrete, step-by-step way.

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General Purposes

Back 9

Speaker’s overall objective: to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.

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Specific Purpose

Back 10

Concise statement articulating what the speaker will achieve in giving a speech.

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Thesis

Back 11

Single declarative sentence that captures the essence or central idea of a speech.

Front 12

Ethos

Back 12

Appeals linked to the speaker’s credibility.

Front 13

Pathos

Back 13

Appeals to emotion.

Front 14

Logos

Back 14

Appeals to logic.

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Rhetoric

Back 15

Aristotle’s term for public speaking.

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Plagiarism

Back 16

Presenting someone else’s ideas and work, such as speeches, papers, and images, as your own.

Front 17

Brainstorming process

Back 17

Free-form generation of ideas for speech topics and content in which individuals think of and record ideas without immediately evaluating them.

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Communication as a process

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Speaker

Message

Channel

Noise

Feedback

Context

Environment

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Spotlight effect

Back 19

Phenomenon that leads us to think other people observe us much more carefully than they actually do.

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Components of credibility

Back 20

An audience’s perception of a speaker’s competence, trustworthiness, dynamism, and sociability.

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Cicero’s five “arts” (or canons) of public speaking

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Invention

Arrangement

Style

Memory

Delivery

(IASMD)

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Strategies for managing speech anxiety

Back 22

Relaxation, Re-Labeling and Visualization

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Demographics

Back 23

Ways in which populations can be divided into smaller groups according to key characteristics such as sex, ethnicity, age, and social class.

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Audience beliefs

Back 24

Something an individual accepts as true or existing.

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Listening process

Back 25

Set Goals

Block Distractions

Manage Listening Anxiety

Suspend Judgment

Focus on the Speaker’s Main Points

Take Effective Notes

Use All Your Senses

Ask Good Questions

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Audience adaption

Back 26

The process of customizing your message to fit a specific audience.

Audience adaptation is not merely saying what you think your listeners want to hear; rather, it is saying what your listeners need to hear in order to pay attention to you.

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audience analysis

Back 27

Obtaining and evaluating information about an audience in order to anticipate its members’ needs and interests and design a strategy to respond to them.

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Ethical communication

Back 28

The moral aspects of our interactions with others, including truthfulness, fairness, responsibility, integrity, and respect.

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Types of listening

Back 29

hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, and responding

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Illusion of transparency

Back 30

The tendency of individuals to believe that how they feel is much more apparent to others than is really the case.

Front 31

Invention (1)

Back 31

Discovering what to say in a speech, such as by choosing a topic and developing good arguments; how you organize your ideas.

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Arrangement (2)

Back 32

Way in which ideas presented in a speech are organized; how you organize your ideas.

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Style (3)

Back 33

Language or words used in a speech; imagery you use to bring a speech’s content to life

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Memory (4)

Back 34

Using the ability to recall information to give an effective speech.

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Delivery (5)

Back 35

Public presentation of a speech to an audience;

how you use your voice, gestures, and body movement when giving a speech.

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Narrative

Back 36

Story used in a speech or other form of communication; description of events in a dramatic fashion; also called a story.

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Types of Media

Back 37

Mass media; Mediated personal communication; Expressive technology; Face-to-face

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Mass media

Back 38

This is the least interactive sphere of communication. Nonetheless, mainstream media still occupy an enormous amount of our time as we search for information and entertainment.

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Mediated personal communication

Back 39

Mobile technologies and the internet have become dominant forms of social interaction, giving us the ability to connect instantly with others by voice, text, and image.

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Expressive technology

Back 40

Digital technology has opened up endless ways for ordinary people to gather information and creatively express themselves, fulfilling a basic human need.

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Face-to-face

Back 41

This type of communication encompasses unmediated contact with other people, including most public speaking situations.

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Models of Communication

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Speaker

Back 43

Person who assumes the primary responsibility for conveying a message in a public communication context.

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Message

Back 44

Words and nonverbal cues a speaker uses to convey ideas, feelings, and thoughts.

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Channel

Back 45

Mode or medium of communication.

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Noise

Back 46

Anything that interferes with the understanding of a message.

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Feedback

Back 47

Audience members’ responses to a speech

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Context

Back 48

Situation in which a speech is given.

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Environment

Back 49

External surroundings that influence a public speaking event.

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Hearing

Back 50

The physical reception of sounds. When you listen, you selectively receive and attend to sounds and other sensory stimuli.

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Understanding

Back 51

Comprehending what you have heard. Conscious intention to focus on the speaker and strive to understand the meaning of the speaker’s message.

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Remembering

Back 52

allows you to think about and recall auditory information. To recall what you’ve heard and understood, your brain must first commit the information to the immediate memory or what is happening in the moment.

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interpret

Back 53

assign meaning to the sounds you’ve received based on your own experiences and knowledge.

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Evaluating

Back 54

allows you to critically examine a message, such as when you test a speaker’s logic.

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Responding

Back 55

Respond to what the speaker has said. Appropriate verbal and nonverbal responses demonstrate your involvement in the speech and reflect your effectiveness as a listener.