Chapter 1 Flashcards
Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Stage Freight
A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation.
Positive Nervousness
Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation.
Visualization
Focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion.
Critical Thinking
The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
Speaker
Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else.
Message
The means by which a message is communicated.
Channel
The person who receives the speaker’s message.
Listener
The sum of a person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes.
Frame of Reference
The messages, usually nonverbal sent from a listener to a speaker.
Feedback
Anything that impedes the communication of a message. It can be internal or external to listeners.
Interference
The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Situation
The belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Ethnocentrism
