Review Flashcards
Having resources, information, and attitudes that lead to action to achieve a desired goal
Empowerment
The creative process of developing your ideas
Invention
How the speech is organized
Arrangement
Your choice of words
Style
The extent to which you use notes or rely on your memory to share your ideas
Memory
The nonverbal expression of your message
Delivery
The delivery of an already famous speech
Declamation
The expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expressions, and voice
Elocution
What is the central concept of the speech making process model?
To consider the audience during your speech. At any point during your speech you may learn something new about the audience and may need to revise your speech.
An example of a topic:
British TV shows that inspired American TV shows
An example of a general purpose:
To inform
An example of a specific purpose:
At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to identify three classic British TV shows that inspired American versions
An example of a specific purpose:
At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to identify three classic British TV shows that inspired American versions
An example of a central idea:
The Office, Antiques Roadshows, and Undercover Bass began as British TV programs that have become successful American TV shows.
Which amendment to the United States Constitution protects free speech?
First Amendment
The beliefs, values, and moral principles by which people determine what is right or wrong
Ethics
Three criteria for speaking ethically:
- Have a clear responsible goal
- Use sound evidence and reasoning
- Be sensitive to and tolerant of differences, be honest, do not plagiarize
The spoken presentation of source information, including the author, title, and year of publication
Oral citation
The print presentation of source information, including the author, title, and year of publication, usually formatted according to a conventional style guide
Written citation
Five listening components of a good listener:
- Selecting
- Attending
- Understanding
- Remembering
- Responding
To single out a message from several competing messages
Selecting
To focus on incoming information for further processing
Attending
To assign meaning to the information to which you attend
Understanding
To recall ideas and information
Remembering
To react with a chance in behavior to a speakers message
Responding
Describe three ways to become a better listener:
- Listen with your eyes as well as your ears
- Listen mindfully
- Listen skillfully
Someone who is comfortable listening to others express feelings and emotions
Relational-oriented listener
Someone who prefers information that is well organized, brief, and precise
Task-orented listener
Someone who prefers messages that are supported with facts and details
Analytical listeners
Someone who prefers to evaluate messages
Critical listeners
What are the three metrics of effective feedback?
Rhetorical criticism, rhetoric, symbols
Statistical information on population characteristics such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, educational level, and religious views
Audience demographics
What is the difference between an open-ended and a close-ended question?
Getting information formally requires that you develop a carefully written survey or questionnaire. Informal is relying on inferences drawn from causal observations and conversations with other.
Questions that allow for unrestricted answers by not limiting answers to choices or alternatives
Open ended questions
Questions that offer alternatives from which to choose, such as true or false, agree or disagree, or multiple choice
Close ended questions
Give an open ended question example and a close ended question example:
Open ended: What are your feelings about having high school health clinics dispense birth-control pills?
Close ended: Are you in favor of school-based health clinics dispensing birth-control pills to high school students? Yes or no
The culturally constructed and psychologically based perception of ones self as feminine or masculine
Gender
A persons biological status of male or female, as reflected in his or her anatomy and reproductive system
Sex
A learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, and norms shared by a group of people
Culture
The portion of a persons cultural background that incudes such factors as nationality, religion, language, and ancestral heritage, which are shared by a group of people who also share a common geographic origin
Ethnicity
A group of people with a common cultural history, nationality, or geographical location, as well as genetically transmitted physical characteristics
Race