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A verbal or nonverbal symbol for an idea or image: - correct answer ✔✔Code
Which kind of listener is most likely to catch inconsistencies and errors in the reasoning and evidence
used to reach a conclusion? - correct answer ✔✔Critical
The environment or situation in which a speech occurs: - correct answer ✔✔Context
Which of the following is NOT a legally-protected speech act under the First Amendment? - correct
answer ✔✔Calling the manager at Walmart to falsely claim there is a bomb in their store as a joke.
Which of the following is a recommended method for dealing with Communication Apprehension? -
correct answer ✔✔Deep breathing exercises
To translate verbal or nonverbal symbols into ideas and images: - correct answer ✔✔Decode
Which Greek philosopher used the term ethos—the root word of ethics and ethical—to refer to a
speaker's credibility or believability? - correct answer ✔✔Aristotle
Experienced speakers don't feel any stage fright. - correct answer ✔✔False
The positive or negative label you ascribe to the public speaking situation will influence how nervous you
feel. - correct answer ✔✔True
A testimony or a quotation that expresses someone's attitudes, beliefs, or values: - correct answer
✔✔Opinion
, In an effort to curb unsafe driving practices, a speaker tells a personal story about a friend who was hurt
in an automobile accident because she was texting while driving. This is an example of a: - correct
answer ✔✔Illustration
The degree to which you are perceived as trustworthy, knowledgeable, and dynamic. - correct answer
✔✔Credibility
The assumption that your own cultural approaches are superior to those of other cultures. - correct
answer ✔✔Ethnocentrism
A .org internet source is one that: - correct answer ✔✔Advocates a group's point of view
A general purpose designed to get listeners to embrace a point of view or to adopt a behavior that they
would not have done otherwise. - correct answer ✔✔To persuade
A belief is an enduring concept of good and bad, right and wrong. - correct answer ✔✔False
A general purpose designed to help audience members acquire information that they do not already
possess. - correct answer ✔✔To inform
The style guide most commonly used in the social sciences (psychology, communication, business) is
APA. - correct answer ✔✔True
Which of the following is considered a low-quality source? - correct answer ✔✔A Wikipedia article on
Rosa Parks
A speaker reads the quote "There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so
readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans" and notes that it came from historian David
McCullough in his book, 1776. This is an example of a: - correct answer ✔✔Oral citation
A speech about major developments in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968. - correct answer
✔✔Chronological
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