CAS Exam 2 Flashcards
Name 4 kinds of Ceremonial Speeches
Toast, Roast, Eulogy, Testimonial
Goal of the toast
Pay brief tribute to a person with a wish of continued good fortune.
Goal of the roast
Humorously pay tribute to someone without embarrassing them or taking away from their virtues. Humanize them
Goal of the eulogy
to praise and celebrate the virtues and personality of the deceased. A time to make sense of death and pay tribute to them family
Goal of the testimonial
Highlight someone’s achievements, accomplishments and character. Praise values held both by the man of the hour and the audience.
Persuasion
Inducing someone to believe or do something, especially by reasoning.
Motivation
To provide with a motive or motives. to impel to action
deliberative
To persuade an audience to agree with a specific policy proposal aimed at solving a social problem. Weigh pros and cons
Conversion
Speaker attempts to change audience’s beliefs
Weaken
Speaker attempts to have audience at least question their own beliefs
Strengthen
Speaker attempts to strengthen existing beliefs. The audience may be uncommitted.
Inductive Reasoning
Reasoning from particular facts that lead to a general conclusion
Deductive reasoning
Moving from a general principle through a specific fact to a conclusion
Red Herring
Introduce an irrelevant topic to divert the audience’s attention
Camel’s Nose
Not having enough evidence to prove that one action will lead to a series of actions eventually culminating in disaster
Straw Man
The arguer misrepresents his opponents actual position.
Ad Hominem
One attempts to refute an argument by attacking irrelevant characteristics of the person supporting it.
False Cause
Saying that one event caused another simply because it happened afterward.
Substituting sign for cause
One thing causes another simply because they happen together
False Dilemma
Forces a choice between 2 possibilities while alternatives exist
Hasty Generalization
Making a conclusion on a population while only studying an insufficient sample size.
Stacked Evidence
Presents evidence thta supports claim while ignoring any that refutes it
False Authority
Appealing to an authority that is not properly qualified to present an opinion on the subject
Circular Arguments
Supporting a claim by merely restating the claim
Group Decision Making Process Steps (7)
Define and Narrow Problem Brainstorm Solutions Establish Criteria for proposed solutions Conduct Research Decide Best Figure out how to implement solution Prepare the final report
Maslow’s Heiarchy of Needs (5)
Biological requirements Physical Safety Social Needs Self Esteem Self Actualization
Appointed
A person creates and charges the group toward a specific task
Elected
Chosen by the group itself`
Emergent
A leader who rises among discussion
Laissez Faire
Decline taking any serious responisbilities
Nondirect
avoids dominating the group and encourages self responisbility
Authortarian
The leader of the group imposes his will agressively
Democratic
Allowing the entire group to make a decision while facilitating communication
Group think
Always thinking that somebody else will take care of it.`
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Attention Need Satisfaction Visualization Action
What does warrant do?
It links the data to the claim
Organizational patterns for both persuasive and motivational speeches
Chronological
Problem-Solution
Need-Plan-Advantages
Alternative-Elimination-Residues
classical cannons of rhetoric (5)
invention memory style arrangement delivery
