Communication 1010 Quiz One

Wayne State university Com 1010 quiz

41 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

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Q: Translating ideas and images in the speakers mind into verbal or nonverbal messages that an audience can understand is termed?
A: Encoding
Q: What is the term for something that interferes with the communication process?
A: Noise
Q: If you have a normal or generally positive approach to communicating in public, where your heart rate is in the average range, what style of communication apprehension are you experiencing?
A: Average Style
Q: When speakers tense and relax their muscles while waiting for their turn to speak, without calling attention to what they are doing, this reflects a strategy of coping with nervousness your text refers to as?
A: Channeling your nervous energy
Q: The rhetoric of diversity refers to a speaker?
A: considering such factors as culture, ethnicity, and gender
Q: Most speakers who procrastinate in preparing their speeches?
A: Will feel more speaker apprehension
Q: Tom is running for student government president. Because he has previously taken a public speaking course, he is able to speak with confidence, conviction, and assurance. Tom is experiencing?
A: Empowerment
Q: Being an audience-centered public speaker?
A: Influences every step of the speech making process
Q: The address of each Website or Web page is known as?
A: the URL of uniform resource locator
Q: The term “periodicals” refers to?
A: magazines and journals
Q: The use of audio or video recorders can be a liability in an interview because?
A: some people are more self-conscious and intimidated when being recorded
Q: It is necessary to determine what individual or organization is responsible for a Web site in order to determine its?
A: Accountability
Q: Joe is a former world weight lifter and professional body builder. He is preparing an informative speech on the abuse of steroids in physical fitness. Through his personal experiences, what quality can joe add to the presentation of his speech?
A: Credibility
Q: Kenisha decided to write her persuasive speech on “Human Cloning”. She didn’t feel comfortable using Internet sources and so relied on books and material from a class she had taken last year. What is the problem with Kenisha’s research?
A: Kenisha should have researched newspapers and periodicals for the most recent material
Q: Our beliefs, values, and moral principles by which we determine what is right or wrong are our?
A: Ethics