Public Speaking Final Exam Review(AT)

Question 1

What is source?

Answer 1

A source encodes.

Question 2

What is receiver?

Answer 2

A receiver decodes.

Question 3

What is message?

Answer 3

What the speaker is discussing or the ideas that she/he is presenting to you as she/he covers a particular topic.

Question 4

What is feedback?

Answer 4

A cue to the speaker to modify or regulate what is being said.

Question 5

What is channel?

Answer 5

The speaker’s use of verbal and nonverbal communication. Any stimuli other than words that can potentially elicit meaning in the mind of a receiver.

Question 6

What is transactional communication process?

Answer 6

Question 7

What are axioms or Principles of Human Communication?

Answer 7

1. Communication can be intentional or unintentional
2. Communication is inevitable
3. Communication is irreversible
4. Communication is unrepeatable
5. Communication is a package of signals
6. Communication involves both content & relationship dimensions
7. Communication is transactional (circular & ongoing)
8. Communication is purposeful

Question 8

What is intrapersonal communication?

Answer 8

Communication with the self.

Question 9

What is interpersonal communication?

Answer 9

Communication between 2 people.

Question 10

What is physiological noise?

Answer 10

Ex. fatigue, illness, or hunger.

Question 11

What is psychological noise?

Answer 11

Internal
Ex. daydreaming

Question 12

What is semantic noise?

Answer 12

Confusion of meaning.
Ex. speaking a foreign language

Question 13

What is physical context?

Answer 13

Where?

Question 14

What is cultural context?

Answer 14

What?

Question 15

What is social/psychological context?

Answer 15

Who?

Question 16

What is temporal context?

Answer 16

When?

Question 17

What is historical context?

Answer 17

How many?

Question 18

What is self-concept?

Answer 18

The image of who and what we consciously and subconsciously think we are.

Question 19

What is self-awareness?

Answer 19

Is your knowledge of yourself; the extent to which you know who you are.

Question 20

What is self-esteem?

Answer 20

The value you place on yourself; your perceived self-worth.

Question 21

What is self-affirming phrase?

Answer 21

Positive phrases that you should say to yourself everyday!

Question 22

What is Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

Answer 22

• Self-Actualization - a happy, positive, productive adult
• Self-Esteem - feeling happy with who you are
• Love & Affection - from family & friends
• Safety - safe in your environment
• Physical - food, water, shelter

Question 23

What is self-disclosure?

Answer 23

Revealing personal information about yourself to others, usually info you normally keep hidden.

Question 24

What is Johari window?

Answer 24

Question 25

What is open self?

Answer 25

Known to others.

Question 26

What is blind self?

Answer 26

Not known to self.

Question 27

What is hidden self?

Answer 27

Not known to others.

Question 28

What is unknown self?

Answer 28

Unknown self.

Question 29

What is Implicit personality theory?

Answer 29

Deals with people’s personalities & assumptions we make about characteristics.

Question 30

What is self-fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 30

A prediction that comes true because you acted as if it were true.

Question 31

What is accentuation?

Answer 31

You see what you want to see or what makes sense.

Question 32

What is primacy-recency affect?

Answer 32

Deals with first impressions and last impressions.

Question 33

What is consistency theory?

Answer 33

Deals with behaviors, people, and the roles they play.

Question 34

What is stereotype?

Answer 34

A fixed impression of a group of people.

Question 35

What are the stages of the perception process?

Answer 35

1. Sensation - our senses are stimulated
2. Organization - Our brain organizes the incoming information
3. Evaluation/Interpretation - We decide if we like/dislike or agree/disagree with what we are seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

Question 36

What are listening myths?

Answer 36

1. Listening is easy.
2. Listening and hearing are the same.
3. We remember what others say ( When in reality we only remember what we THINK ABOUT what others say.)

Question 37

What is listening process?

Answer 37

1. Receiving
2. Understanding
3. Remembering
4. Evaluating
5. Responding - 2 phases: during and after

Question 38

What is active listening?

Answer 38

The process of sending feedback to the speaker to show literally and emotionally that you understand them.

Question 39

What is RASA?

Answer 39

Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask