Final Flashcards
(22 cards)
Extemporaneous Speach
limited-preparation speech event based on research and original analysis
Impromptu Speech
speech and debate individual event that involves a five- to eight-minute speech with a characteristically short preparation time of one to seven minutes.
Fight-or-Flight Speech
a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.
Desensitization
the diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it.
Ethical
of or relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
Objective
not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
Subjective
based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.
Explaining
make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
Vested Interest
a personal stake or involvement in an undertaking or state of affairs, especially one with an expectation of financial gain.
Inductive Reasoning
a logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion
Deductive Reasoning
a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true
Syllogism
an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion
Proposition of Fact
a statement in which you focus largely on belief of the audience in its truth or falsehood. Your arguments are thus aimed at getting your audience to accept the statement as being true or false.
Proposition of Value
a promise of value to be delivered and acknowledged. It is also a belief from the customer how value (benefit) will be delivered and experienced
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Attention, need, satisfaction, visualization, action, conclusion
Bandwagon Appeal
The argument that since something is popular or everybody is doing it, so should you. Think of peer pressure or popularity as being the basis of the argument
Hasty Generalization
Hasty generalization is an informal fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence—essentially making a hasty conclusion without considering all of the variables.
Logical Fallacy
In philosophy, a formal fallacy (also called logical fallacy) is a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system, for example propositional logic
Ad hominem Fallacy
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.
Red herring fallacy
an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. In literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters or to induce them to make false conclusions.
Build rapport
- Find Common Ground. Think of how comfortable you might feel if, while living thousands of miles from where you grew up, you met someone from your hometown. …
- Focus on Your Appearance. …
- Be Empathic. …
- Use Mirroring. …
- Don’t Forget About the Basics.
Credibility
the quality of being trusted and believed in
