Thursday exam 6/12/2024 Flashcards
What is the General Purpose in your speech? Why is it important to determine one?
the general purpose of your speech will be to inform, to persuade, or to entertain.
List the two audience analysis types, and explain one.
Demographics are the audience culture and Psychological audience analysis considers audience knowledge to the topic
How are Primary and Secondary sources different?
Primary is written first hand by someone and secondary is written from someone else work example Wikipedia
Explain the relationship between communication apprehension and public speaking anxiety.
Communication apprehension is being nervous in any conversation and Public speaking anxiety is a a communication apprehension that is only applied to giving presentation.
How is cognitive restructuring helpful to those with public speaking anxiety?
Cognitive restructuring entails changing the way we think about something. A first step in restructuring how we deal with public speaking anxiety is to cognitively process through our fears to realize that many of the thoughts associated with public speaking anxiety are irrational (Allen, Hunter & Donohue, 2009)
Explain how our class is using systematic desensitization to address speech anxiety.
Systematic desensitization is getting less scared of something when doing it over and over.
Which type of speaking has been studied longer – informative, or persuasive? Explain why.
Ancient philosophers and public officials like Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian conceived of public speaking as rhetoric, which is inherently persuasive. During that time, and until the 1800s, almost all speaking was argumentative. Teaching and instruction were performed as debates, and even fields like science and medicine relied on argumentative reasoning instead of factual claims.
How do you engage your audience?
hook
Why is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs important to consider in persuasive speaking?
is an organizational pattern designed for persuasive speaking that appeals to audience members’ needs and motivates them to action (Watt & Barnett, 2021). If your persuasive speaking goals include a call to action, you may want to consider this organizational pattern.
What is a warrant?
warrant connects the claim and evidence
Describe cognitive dissonance and tell why it is important in persuasive speaking.
Cognitive is when a mental discomfort that results when new information clashes with or contradicts currently held beliefs, attitudes, or values.
What is a proposition of fact?
Propositions of fact focus on beliefs and try to establish that something “is or isn’t.
What is the three-part tool used for deductive reasoning.
All humans are mortal, kai is a human, kai is mortal.
What are Artistotle’s three forms of rhetorical proof? Briefly define each one.
Logos, or the appeal to logic, means to appeal to the audiences’ sense of reason or logic, Ethos is a means of convincing an audience of the reliable character or credibility of the speaker/writer, or the credibility of the argument, and pathos to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.
Explain the motive fallacy.
when one person argues that another person’s position is invalid solely due to motives that could affect the claim. An example is that people been trying to prove that God is real but since they never got evidence that must mean that God is not real.
