Test 1

Question 0

Rhetoric

Answer 0

The study of persuasion in its various forms; this helps develop critical thinking skills

Question 1

Critical thinking

Answer 1

The ability to think analytical about ideas

Question 2

Civic engagement

Answer 2

Working with others to help solve issues of public concern

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

An integrated system of learned beliefs, values, behaviors, and norms that include visible and underlying characteristics of a society

Question 4

Co cultures

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Subgroups of culture, characterized by mild or profound cultural differences, that coexist within the larger culture

Question 5

Core cultural resources

Answer 5

Beliefs, attitudes, and values, along with behaviors that provide a logical basis for a culture to define what is necessary, right, doubtful, or forbidden.

Question 6

Oral culture

Answer 6

Culture with no writing and no technology for recording messages apart from face to face interactions

Question 7

Individualistic cultures

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Members of these cultures depend mainly on themselves and are judged on personal merits

Question 8

Collectivist cultures

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Members of these cultures are integrated into an in group that protects them throughout their lives

Question 9

Non expressive cultures

Answer 9

Cultures that value privacy and encourage members to keep their emotions and ideas to themselves rather than to express them publicly

Question 10

Expressive cultures

Answer 10

Cultures that encourage members to give their opinions and speak their minds and let their feelings show

Question 11

Communication style

Answer 11

A cultures preferred ways of communicating. Given its assumptions and norms.

Question 12

Taboo

Answer 12

Topics a culture considers inapropriate

Question 13

Bicultural

Answer 13

Knowing and applying different rules for competent behaviors in two cultures

Question 14

Dialog oval theory of communication

Answer 14

Theory that face to face communication is fundamental to all other communication

Question 15

Respons- ibility

Answer 15

Speakers and listeners mutual engagement with ideas which allows them to jointly forge meanings

Question 16

Speech genres

Answer 16

Cultural forms we rely upon when we participate in a specific type of communication

Question 17

In oral cultures people must store all their knowledge in their memory

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Conversations and public speaking have little in common

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The term responsibility refers to the give and take interactions we engage in as we do create meanings

Answer 19

True

Question 20

You’re giving your speech two people frown when you say abortion. In the communication model shown in the text their frowns are feedback

Answer 20

True

Question 21

After a fight with your significant other you focus on what you didn’t say and tune out a classroom speech. In the transactional model of communication shown in the text. This is noise and static.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

You may have trouble understanding heavily accented English. This is an example of vocabulary differences.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

A loaded question means the speaker has to provide a great deal of detail in their answer

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Speech thought differential means the difference between how fast you think and how fast the speaker talks

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Michelle taps her own and shuffles her paper as someone speaks she is a less competent listener

Answer 25

True

Question 26

D R E stands for

Answer 26

Describe respond evaluate

Question 27

Men and women experience public speaking anxiety similarly

Answer 27

False

Question 28

Internal monologue is defined as self talk

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Negative internal monologue can make you anxious about public speaking

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Flight or fight mechanism can cause

Answer 30

Butterflies, nerves, heart racing, perspiration

Question 31

Communication apprehension

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Being afraid to speak out because of what others will think

Question 32

The five canons of rhetoric are invention, disposition, style, memory, and delivery.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Your speech purpose is determined by the response you want from your audience

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Kim has ideas but doesn’t know how to order them so they flow well. She needs to learn the principle of the canon of disposition

Answer 34

True

Question 35

The mode of delivery most used in class is extemporaneous

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Most speeches focus on four goals which are to inform, persuade, entertain, commemorate

Answer 36

True