Vocab Terms Chapter: 1, 2, 4

Question 1

Stage Fright

Answer 1

Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.

Question 2

Adrenaline

Answer 2

A hormone released into the blood stream in response to physical or mental stress

Question 3

Positive nervousness

Answer 3

controlled nervousness that helps energized a speaker for a presentation

Question 4

Visualization

Answer 4

mental imaging in which speakers vividly picture themselves giving a successful presentation.

Question 5

Critical thinking

Answer 5

organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, evidence and difference between fact and opinion

Question 6

Speaker

Answer 6

the person presenting an oral message to a listener

Question 7

Message

Answer 7

Whatever a speaker communicates to someone.

Question 8

Channel

Answer 8

Which a message is communicated

Question 9

Listener

Answer 9

Person who receives a communicated message

Question 10

Frame of reference

Answer 10

Sum of a persons knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitude. No 2 people are the same.

Question 11

Feedback

Answer 11

Messages that are sent from a listener to a speaker

Question 12

Interference

Answer 12

Anything that impedes the communication of a message

Question 13

Situation

Answer 13

time and place in which speech communication occurs

Question 14

Ethnocentrism

Answer 14

Belief that our own group or culture is superior to all other groups or culture

Question 15

Ethics

Answer 15

The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right, and wrong in human affairs

Question 16

Name-calling

Answer 16

the use of language to defame, demean, or degrade Indvidual or groups

Question 17

Global Plagiarism

Answer 17

stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as ones own

Question 18

Incremental Plagiarism

Answer 18

Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people

Question 19

Paraphrase

Answer 19

to restate or summarize an author’s ideas in one’s own words

Question 20

Ethical Decisions

Answer 20

Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards guidelines

Question 21

Plagiarism

Answer 21

Presenting another’s persons language or ideas as one’s own

Question 22

Patchwork Plagiarism

Answer 22

Stealing ideas from multiple sources and passing them off as one’s own

Question 23

Bill of Rights

Answer 23

the first 10 amendments in the U.S. constitution

Question 24

Introduction

Answer 24

The opening section of a speech

Question 25

Body

Answer 25

The main section of a speech

Question 26

Chronological order

Answer 26

A speech following a time pattern

Question 27

Topical Order

Answer 27

Organizing in which the main points divide the topic into logical and consistent subtopics

Question 28

Main points

Answer 28

major points developed in a body of a speech

Question 29

Transition

Answer 29

a word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving to another

Question 30

Extemporaneous Speech

Answer 30

a carefully prepared speech that is presented by notes

Question 31

Gestures

Answer 31

Motions of a speaker’s hands or arms during a speech

Question 32

Eye contact

Answer 32

Direct visual contact with the eyes of another person