P.S. Chp.1

Question 0

Skilled used when talking to people

Answer 0

1. ) organizing your thoughts logically
2. ) tailoring your message to your audience
3. ) Telling a story for maximum impact
4. ) adapting to listener feedback.

Question 1

Public speaking

Answer 1

Is a way of making your ideas public of sharing them with other people and influencing other people.

Question 2

Organizing your thoughts

Answer 2

When you speak you do so in the appropriate order and manner a logical flow of sequences

Question 3

Tailoring your message to your audience

Answer 3

How you say something depends on who you are telling it to. Ex telling a fellow student about the process of a pearl vs telling a 9 year old the same process

Question 4

Telling a story for maximum impact

Answer 4

Carefully building up your story/speech adjusting words and tone of voice for best effect

Question 5

Adapting to listener feedback

Answer 5

Reacting to the persons reactions be they physical, verbal, or facial

Question 6

3 major differences between conversation and public speaking

Answer 6

1. ) public speaking is more highly structured
2. ) public speaking requires more formal language
3. ) public speaking requires a different method of delivery

Question 7

Public speaking is highly more structured

Answer 7

Consequently, public speaking demands much more detailed planing as preparation than ordinary conversation. You must be able to accomplish everything within the time frame of the speech

Question 8

Public speaking requires more formal language

Answer 8

No slang, jargon, and bad grammar. A speech is a special “occasion”

Question 9

Public speaking requires a different method of delivery

Answer 9

avoid words like umm, uh, er (which are vocalized pauses) and be in a erect posture. You don’t stand or talk the same way in a speech as you would in a conversation

Question 10

When dealing with nervousness you should?

Answer 10

Rather than trying to get ride of it you should transform it from a negative force to a positive one call positive nervousness so instead of being victimized by it you are empower by it.

Question 11

Six ways to turn your negative nervousness into a positive one.

Answer 11

1. ) acquire speaking experience
2. ) prepare, prepare, prepare
3. ) think positively
4. ) use the power of visualization
5. ) know that most nervousness is not visible
6. ) don’t expect perfection

Question 12

Acquiring speaking experience

Answer 12

The more you give speeches the less threatening them seem to be. It’s all trial and error.

Question 13

Prepare, prepare, prepare

Answer 13

Chose a topic you’re interested in and prepare your speech (rule of thumb: for every minute of a speech requires one to two hours of preparing

Question 14

Think positively

Answer 14

Be confident if you feel you can do it you can, but if all you think is negative then it will be a negative experience. Turn negative with positive. “I can’t.” -> “I will”

Question 15

Use the power of visualization

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Picture yourself succeeding speech or anything else. Picture what can go wrong but know that you will succeed. This alone will not help much but combine it with other techniques and you will do great

Question 16

Know that most nervousness is not visible

Answer 16

You don’t look as nervous as you feel. Out of the thousands of shocks your nervous are doing only a few are shown

Question 17

Don’t expect perfection

Answer 17

Mistakes happen. Even if you do mess up the audience doesn’t know your speech, remember a speech isn’t a performance it’s an act of communication

Question 18

Other things to help with nervousness

Answer 18

Sleep well, deep slow breathes, tense your legs and hands to release extra adrenaline, work on intro, make eye contact, concentrate on your audience, use visual aides.

Question 19

Critical thinking

Answer 19

Is focused, organized thinking–the ability to see clearly the relationships among ideas

Question 20

Seven elements of communication

Answer 20

1. )Speaker
2. )Message
3. )Channel
4. )Listener
5. )Feedback
6. )Interference
7. )situation

Question 21

Speaker

Answer 21

The person who is presenting an oral message to a listener

Question 22

Message

Answer 22

Whatever the speaker communicates to someone else

Question 23

Channel

Answer 23

The means by which a message is communicated

Question 24

Listener

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The person who receives the speakers message

Question 25

Fran of reference

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The sure of a persons knowledge experience, goals, values, and attitudes. No two people have the same frame of reference. Describe something (no two people will describe the same thing) Speaker has to be careful to adapt the message to that particular audience

Question 26

Feedback

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The message, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker

Question 27

Interference

Answer 27

Anything that impedes the communication of a message. Interference can be ex eternal or internal listeners.

Question 28

Two kinds of interference

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Internal and external Internal: is the individual listener such as one is thinking about a test or an argument with a friend External: is something that could distract the audience as a whole students talking outside the classroom, the heater is loud, etc.

Question 29

Situation

Answer 29

The time and place in which speech communication occurs

Question 30

ethnocentrism

Answer 30

The beliefs that ones own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.