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SPCH 1315 Midterm ExamReview(updated)questions with correct
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Four Similarities Between Public Speaking and Conversation - correct answer ✔✔- organizing your
thought logically
- tailoring your message to your audience
- adjusting your words to get the best effect
- adapting to listener's feedback (verbal and nonverbal)
public speaking - correct answer ✔✔communicating in which a speaker presents a relatively continuous
message to a relatively large audience in a unique context
immediate audience - correct answer ✔✔the audience that hears the speech as it is presented
remote audience - correct answer ✔✔The audience that receives the speech from those who
heard/read it or heard/read about it.
speaker - correct answer ✔✔the one who presents the speech
physical context (where are you?) - correct answer ✔✔the tangible environment in which
communication takes place
social psychological context - correct answer ✔✔the status relationships among speakers, the formality
of the situation, the norms of a group of organization; you don't talk the same way in the cafeteria as you
would at a formal dinner at your boss's house
Temporal context (timing) - correct answer ✔✔a message's position within a sequence of events; the
time in history in which the communication takes place.
, Cultural context (What are the expectations) - correct answer ✔✔the cultural beliefs and customs of
those communicating
communication apprehension - correct answer ✔✔fear of communicating with another person or
persons
trait apprehension - correct answer ✔✔a general fear of communication, regardless of the specific
situation
state apprehension - correct answer ✔✔a fear that is specific to a given communication situation
ethics - correct answer ✔✔the rightness of wrongness of actions; the branch of philosophy that studies
moral values
Systemic desensitization - correct answer ✔✔a theory and technique for dealing with fears (such as
communication apprehension) in which you gradually expose yourself to and develop a comfort level
with the fear-causing stimulus.
Cognitive restructuring - correct answer ✔✔a theory for substituting logical and realistic beliefs for
unrealistic ones; used in reducing communication apprehension and in raising self-esteem
Power priming - correct answer ✔✔verbal and nonverbal movements that make one feel powerful
performance visualization - correct answer ✔✔A method for reducing communication apprehension in
which you visualize yourself performing effectively and confidently.
Channel - correct answer ✔✔the vehicle or medium through which signals are sent
feedforward messages - correct answer ✔✔preface or prepare us for the message (I've got sad news)
feedback message - correct answer ✔✔(often nonverbal) tells the speaker the effect your
communication is having on the listener
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