Test 1 Flashcards
Rhetoric
The study of persuasion in its various forms; this helps develop critical thinking skills
Critical thinking
The ability to think analytical about ideas
Civic engagement
Working with others to help solve issues of public concern
Culture
An integrated system of learned beliefs, values, behaviors, and norms that include visible and underlying characteristics of a society
Co cultures
Subgroups of culture, characterized by mild or profound cultural differences, that coexist within the larger culture
Core cultural resources
Beliefs, attitudes, and values, along with behaviors that provide a logical basis for a culture to define what is necessary, right, doubtful, or forbidden.
Oral culture
Culture with no writing and no technology for recording messages apart from face to face interactions
Individualistic cultures
Members of these cultures depend mainly on themselves and are judged on personal merits
Collectivist cultures
Members of these cultures are integrated into an in group that protects them throughout their lives
Non expressive cultures
Cultures that value privacy and encourage members to keep their emotions and ideas to themselves rather than to express them publicly
Expressive cultures
Cultures that encourage members to give their opinions and speak their minds and let their feelings show
Communication style
A cultures preferred ways of communicating. Given its assumptions and norms.
Taboo
Topics a culture considers inapropriate
Bicultural
Knowing and applying different rules for competent behaviors in two cultures
Dialog oval theory of communication
Theory that face to face communication is fundamental to all other communication
Respons- ibility
Speakers and listeners mutual engagement with ideas which allows them to jointly forge meanings
Speech genres
Cultural forms we rely upon when we participate in a specific type of communication
In oral cultures people must store all their knowledge in their memory
True
Conversations and public speaking have little in common
False
The term responsibility refers to the give and take interactions we engage in as we do create meanings
True
You’re giving your speech two people frown when you say abortion. In the communication model shown in the text their frowns are feedback
True
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.
True
You may have trouble understanding heavily accented English. This is an example of vocabulary differences.
False
A loaded question means the speaker has to provide a great deal of detail in their answer
False
Speech thought differential means the difference between how fast you think and how fast the speaker talks
True
Michelle taps her own and shuffles her paper as someone speaks she is a less competent listener
True
D R E stands for
Describe respond evaluate
Men and women experience public speaking anxiety similarly
False
Internal monologue is defined as self talk
True
Negative internal monologue can make you anxious about public speaking
True
Flight or fight mechanism can cause
Butterflies, nerves, heart racing, perspiration
Communication apprehension
Being afraid to speak out because of what others will think
The five canons of rhetoric are invention, disposition, style, memory, and delivery.
True
Your speech purpose is determined by the response you want from your audience
True
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
True
The mode of delivery most used in class is extemporaneous
True
Most speeches focus on four goals which are to inform, persuade, entertain, commemorate
True
