CAS Exam 2

Question 1

Name 4 kinds of Ceremonial Speeches

Answer 1

Toast, Roast, Eulogy, Testimonial

Question 2

Goal of the toast

Answer 2

Pay brief tribute to a person with a wish of continued good fortune.

Question 3

Goal of the roast

Answer 3

Humorously pay tribute to someone without embarrassing them or taking away from their virtues. Humanize them

Question 4

Goal of the eulogy

Answer 4

to praise and celebrate the virtues and personality of the deceased. A time to make sense of death and pay tribute to them family

Question 5

Goal of the testimonial

Answer 5

Highlight someone’s achievements, accomplishments and character. Praise values held both by the man of the hour and the audience.

Question 6

Persuasion

Answer 6

Inducing someone to believe or do something, especially by reasoning.

Question 7

Motivation

Answer 7

To provide with a motive or motives. to impel to action

Question 8

deliberative

Answer 8

To persuade an audience to agree with a specific policy proposal aimed at solving a social problem. Weigh pros and cons

Question 9

Conversion

Answer 9

Speaker attempts to change audience’s beliefs

Question 10

Weaken

Answer 10

Speaker attempts to have audience at least question their own beliefs

Question 11

Strengthen

Answer 11

Speaker attempts to strengthen existing beliefs. The audience may be uncommitted.

Question 12

Inductive Reasoning

Answer 12

Reasoning from particular facts that lead to a general conclusion

Question 13

Deductive reasoning

Answer 13

Moving from a general principle through a specific fact to a conclusion

Question 14

Red Herring

Answer 14

Introduce an irrelevant topic to divert the audience’s attention

Question 15

Camel’s Nose

Answer 15

Not having enough evidence to prove that one action will lead to a series of actions eventually culminating in disaster

Question 16

Straw Man

Answer 16

The arguer misrepresents his opponents actual position.

Question 17

Ad Hominem

Answer 17

One attempts to refute an argument by attacking irrelevant characteristics of the person supporting it.

Question 18

False Cause

Answer 18

Saying that one event caused another simply because it happened afterward.

Question 19

Substituting sign for cause

Answer 19

One thing causes another simply because they happen together

Question 20

False Dilemma

Answer 20

Forces a choice between 2 possibilities while alternatives exist

Question 21

Hasty Generalization

Answer 21

Making a conclusion on a population while only studying an insufficient sample size.

Question 22

Stacked Evidence

Answer 22

Presents evidence thta supports claim while ignoring any that refutes it

Question 23

False Authority

Answer 23

Appealing to an authority that is not properly qualified to present an opinion on the subject

Question 24

Circular Arguments

Answer 24

Supporting a claim by merely restating the claim

Question 25

Group Decision Making Process Steps (7)

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Maslow’s Heiarchy of Needs (5)

Answer 26

Biological requirements
Physical Safety
Social Needs
Self Esteem
Self Actualization

Question 27

Appointed

Answer 27

A person creates and charges the group toward a specific task

Question 28

Elected

Answer 28

Chosen by the group itself`

Question 29

Emergent

Answer 29

A leader who rises among discussion

Question 30

Laissez Faire

Answer 30

Decline taking any serious responisbilities

Question 31

Nondirect

Answer 31

avoids dominating the group and encourages self responisbility

Question 32

Authortarian

Answer 32

The leader of the group imposes his will agressively

Question 33

Democratic

Answer 33

Allowing the entire group to make a decision while facilitating communication

Question 34

Group think

Answer 34

Always thinking that somebody else will take care of it.`

Question 35

Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

Answer 35

Attention
Need
Satisfaction
Visualization
Action

Question 36

What does warrant do?

Answer 36

It links the data to the claim

Question 37

Organizational patterns for both persuasive and motivational speeches

Answer 37

Chronological

Problem-Solution

Need-Plan-Advantages

Alternative-Elimination-Residues

Question 38

classical cannons of rhetoric (5)

Answer 38

invention
memory
style
arrangement
delivery