Ch 1 Speaking In Public

Question 0

Adrenaline

Answer 0

A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress

Question 1

Stage Fright

Answer 1

Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience

Question 2

Positive Nervousness

Answer 2

Controlled Nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation

Question 3

Visualization

Answer 3

Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures him/herself giving a successful presentation

Question 4

Critical thinking

Answer 4

Focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences b/w fact & opinion

Question 5

Speaker

Answer 5

The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener

Question 6

Message

Answer 6

Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else

Question 7

Channel

Answer 7

The means by which a message is communicated

Question 8

Listener

Answer 8

The person who receives the speaker’s message

Question 9

Frame of Reference

Answer 9

The sum of a person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, & attitudes. No 2 people can have exactly same frame of reference

Question 10

Feedback

Answer 10

The messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker

Question 11

Interference

Answer 11

Anything that impedes the communication of a message. Interference can be external or internal to listeners

Question 12

Situation

Answer 12

The time & place in which speech communication occurs

Question 13

Ethnocentrism

Answer 13

The belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures