CMST 1061 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS
There are only two types of informative speaking —content and purpose.
Select one:
True
False - Answer- true
Content speeches can be categorized into the following four types, except?
Select one:
a. Instructional
b. Objects
c. Ev...
There are only two types of informative speaking —content and purpose.
Select one:
True
False - Answer- true
Content speeches can be categorized into the following four types, except?
Select one:
a. Instructional
b. Objects
c. Events
d. Processes - Answer- instructional
Repetition and signposts are not ways to emphasize your points. - Answer- false
The following are ways you can make it easy for your audience to listen to you, except?
Select one:
a. Limit the amount of information you present
b. Use unfamiliar information to increase understanding of the familiar
c. Use simple information to build up the understanding of complex information
d. Use familiar information to increase understanding of the unfamiliar - Answer- Use
unfamiliar information to increase understanding of the familiar
During an informative speech, the speaker seeks to change attitudes and offer
information. - Answer- false
Cultural background is always a part of informative speaking? - Answer- true
The speaker, in an informative speech, is seeking to alleviate information anxiety. -
Answer- true
You should become a better listener because people who listen are more likely to get
hired and promoted. - Answer- true
Match the correct word to the correct meaning.
Denotative
, connoataitve
symbols - Answer- denotative- the way people define words based on dictionary
conocative- the way people define words based on personal meaning
symbols- arbitrary
When you are listening to a message in order to understand the message by exploring
a variety of perspectives is call what kind of listening?
Select one:
a. Analytical Listening
b. Comprehensive Listening
c. Relational Listening
d. Critical Listening - Answer- analytical listening
Names shape the way others think of us, the way we view ourselves, and the way we
act. - Answer- true
Whenever you use a mild or indirect word substituted for a less pleasant one you are
using what type of language?
Select one:
a. Evasive language
b. Overly abstract language
c. Emotive language
d. Power language - Answer- evasive language
Which of the following is not a type of "powerless" language?
Select one:
a. Polite forms
b. Affiliation
c. Hedges
d. Intensifiers - Answer- affiliation
Language is a precise tool in which words have the same meaning for all English
speaking people. - Answer- false
The most obvious kind of language problems are semantic; we don't understand others
completely. - Answer- treu
Listening requires you to not only hear what is being said but to pay close attention to
the speaker in an effort to make sense of whatever he/she is trying to convey. - Answer-
true
The characteristics of nonverbal communication include all except?
Select one:
a. All of these are characteristics of nonverbal communication
b. Nonverbal communication has value
c. Nonverbal skills are important
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