Chapter 1- Speaking In Public Flashcards
What is adrenaline?
A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
What is Stage Fright?
Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
What is Positive nervousness?
Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation.
What is Visualization?
Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation.
What is critical thinking?
Focused organized thinking about such thinks as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence and the differences between fact and opinion.
Who is the Speaker?
The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener.
What is a message?
Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else.
What is a channel?
The means by which a message is communicated. I.e. Radio tv etc
Whom is the listener?
The person who receives the speakers message. THE AUDIENCE.
What is a frame of reference?
The sum of a person’s knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. Now 2 people cam have exactly the same frame of reference.
What is feedback that the audience gives the speaker?
The messages usually nonverbal sent from a listener to a speaker. Shuffling feet looking out the window or at the clock.
What are interferences? And some types?
Anything that impedes the communication of a message. Interference can be external or internal to listeners. Busy streets, lack of equipment, loud classmates in the halls.
What is situation?
the time and place in which speech communication occurs.
What is ethnocentrism?
The belief that one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
