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Unit 3 - Public Speaking and Presentations Flashcards

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Contemporary approach to public Speaking

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  1. Credibility, emotion, and logic are important

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Contemporary approach to public Speaking

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  1. Credibility, emotion, and logic are important
  2. Attitude plays a role in projection
  3. Ethos, pathos, and logos is needed for success
  4. Great speeches come off as good story telling
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Characteristics of a confident speaker

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  1. Be passionate about your topic
  2. Feedback/criticism can be helpful/useful
  3. Best public speaking style is conversational
  4. Have a positive outlook on the audience
  5. Believe in and reassure yourself
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Ethos

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The audience’s perception that the speaker is trustworthy, credible, and competent.

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Pathos

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The ability to arouse emotion within the audience

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Logos

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Speech that is supported by logical reasoning.

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Inductive Reasoning

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Specific reasons or examples that lead us to a conclusion.

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Deductive Reasoning

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Starts out with broad/generalizations, and then later can move to more specific examples.

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Syllogism

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Classic form of deductive reasoning using three lines, first is a major premise, second is a minor premise, final line is is the conclusion. Ex. All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is a mortal.

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Fallacies

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Descriptions of the ways in which arguments can go wrong.

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Hasty Generalization

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A fallacy of inductive reasoning that comes to a general conclusion based on too few or unrepresentative examples. Ex. Finding good parking on campus one day, means there will always good parking.

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Straw Person

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When refuting an argument, trying to defeat a weaker form of the argument instead of addressing the stronger point in the argument.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc aka “after, therefore b/c of”

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When one event, precedes a second, it is believed to have caused the second, i.e. superstition

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Forced dichotomy

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When speaker proposes only certain solutions to a problem, and purposefully or ignorantly ignores any other solutions.

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Ad hominem aka “about the person”

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The person tries to attack the arguer him/herself instead of debating the argument itself

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Appeal to misplaced authority

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Reliance on a popular person to speak as an authority to an unrelated issue. Ex. Having Lebron James speak about a certain brand of headphones instead of basketball shoes (which he would be more credible).

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Characteristics of Good Story Telling

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  1. Topic is of interest to audience
  2. Plot takes place over period of time
  3. Added details to make story more vivid
  4. An appropriate setting
  5. A conflict that climaxes and is later resolved
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Characteristics of a Good Story

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  1. It is realistic
  2. Has sustainable value (audience can apply what was learned)
  3. They are organized
  4. They are interactive
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Informative Speech

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A speech that builds on what is already known, and then tries to teach something new

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Persuasive Speech

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A speech that aims to change a person’s attitude, belief, opinions, or behaviors.

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Entertainment Speech

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A speech that aims to amuse the listener, lighten their mood, or distract them from tougher times/subjects

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Topical Organization

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Three separate main points all connected by the overall topic

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Chronological Organization

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Points follow a timeline, similar to a biography

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Spatial Organiation

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Organized by way of the area or location to which the speech/story takes place

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Three goals for a strong speech ending

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  1. Audience should feel connected to speaker
  2. Audience should feel connected to the topic
  3. Audience should thinkin about topic long after speech is over
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Informative vs Persuasive Speeches

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Informative provides information only, Persuasive will provide information along with an opinion with the intent to urge or call to action.

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Goals of Informative Speeches

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  1. Communicate information
  2. Further existing knowledge
  3. Updated outdated info
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Create, Alter, Further

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If no knowledge at all - create
If outdated knowledge - Alter
If present knowledge, but need more - Further

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Goals of Persuasion

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Want to change how the listener thinks, feels, or acts.

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Attitude vs Belief

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Attitude refers to an opinion

Belief is a more general view of the world

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Types of Persuasive Speeches

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Definitional - Is it, or it aint
Factual - True or False
Policy - Political Problem/Solution
Value - Virtue, Judgement

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Psychological Reactance Theory (Brehm)

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The human inclination to resist change due to a random belief that it threatens their freedom.

Introduction to Communication - C464 (3 decks)

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