Speech Test 1

Terms from the text book The Art of Public Speaking for and Intro speech class

56 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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Global plagiarism
Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one's own
Patchwork plagiarism
Stealing ideas or language from 2 or 3 sources and passing as one's own
Incremental plagiarism
Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrow from other people
Frame of reference
The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. no two people can have exactly the same frame of reference
Audience centeredness
Keeping the audience foremost in mind at every step of speech preparation and presentation
Identification
A process in which speakers seek to create a bond with the audience by emphasizing common values, goals, and experiences
Situational audience analysis
Audience analysis that focuses on situational factors such as the size of the audience, physical setting for the speech, & disposition of the audience toward the topic, the speaker and occasion
Spare brain time
Difference between rate at which at most people talk (120-150 words per min) and that rate at which the brain can process language (400-800 words/min)
Comprehensive listening
Listening to understand i.e. classroom lecture
Empathic listening
Listening to provide emotionaly support for speaker i.e. friend in distress
Critical listening
Listening to message to support or reject
Appreciative listening
Listening for pleasure i.e. music
Attitude
A frame mind in favor of or opposed to a person, policy, belief, institution, etc
Fixed-alternative questions
Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives i.e. yes, no, unsure
Scale questions
Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers. very seldom --> very often