SPC 205 Public Speaking Final Exam Review Questions with Correct Answers
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SPC 205 Public Speaking Final Exam Review Questions with Correct Answers
What is persuasion? - Correct Answer The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions
How long has persuasion been studied? - Correct Answer More than 2000 years
What is mental dialogue? - C...
SPC 205 Public Speaking Final Exam Review
Questions with Correct Answers
What is persuasion? - Correct Answer The process of creating, reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions
How long has persuasion been studied? - Correct Answer More than 2000 years
What is mental dialogue? - Correct Answer It is a mental give and take between the speaker and listener during a persuasive speech
What is a target audience? - Correct Answer The portion of the whole audience that the speaker most wants to persuade.
What are questions of fact? - Correct Answer It is a question about the truth or falsity of an assertion.
Can all questions of facts be answered absolutely? - Correct Answer No. Some questions deal with topics that aren't clear or inconclusive
What is the situation for an informative speech? - Correct Answer It is nonpartisan. The aim is to give
information as impartially as possible.
What is the situation for a persuasive speech? - Correct Answer It is partisan. The aim is to present one side of the facts as persuasively as possible.
How are persuasive speeches on questions of fact usually organized? - Correct Answer Topically
What are questions of value? - Correct Answer Questions about the worth, rightness, morality and so
forth of an idea or action.
How are persuasive speeches on questions of value usually organized? - Correct Answer Topically
How do you justify questions of value? - Correct Answer You justify your judgement against some identifiable standard What are questions of policy? - Correct Answer Questions about whether a specific course of action should or shouldn't be taken.
Do questions of policy involve questions of fact? - Correct Answer Sometimes, but questions of policy
must go beyond fact to decide whether something should be done or not
What word do questions of policy usually include? - Correct Answer "Should"
What is a speech to gain passive agreement? - Correct Answer It is a speech where the speaker's goal
is to convince the audience that a given policy is desirable without encouraging the audience to take action in support.
What is a speech to gain immediate action? - Correct Answer It is a speech where the speaker's goal is to convince the audience to take action in support of a given policy
Why is a speech to gain immediate action more desirable than a speech to gain passive agreement? -
Correct Answer Immediate action reinforces belief from the audience
What is the need of a question of policy? - Correct Answer It is where you convince listeners that there is a problem with how things currently are.
What is the plan of a question of policy? - Correct Answer It is where the speaker lays out the solution to the problem
What is the practicality of a question of policy? - Correct Answer It is where the speaker shows that the plan will work and if it will create any other problems. The audience will want assurance that the plan will solve the problem
What are the four special patterns for policy speeches? - Correct Answer Problem-solution order, problem-cause-solution order, comparative advantages order, and Monroe's motivated sequence
What is problem-solution order? - Correct Answer A method of organizing persuasive speeches where the first main point addresses the existence of a problem and the second main point presents a solution to the problem
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