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DSST The Art Of Public Speaking
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
Causal Reasoning
Symposium
Ethical Decisions
Brief Example
2. Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects.
Topic
Connective
Causal Reasoning
Mean
3. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Stereo-typing
Main Points
Derived Credibility
Speech of Introduction
4. A word or phrase that connects the ideas of a speech and indicates the relationship between them.
Evidence
Feedback
Bandwagon
Connective
5. A fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that can not be prevented.
Slippery Slope
Credibility
Patchwork Plagiarism
Simile
6. A specific case used to illustrate or to represent a group of people - ideas - conditions - experiences - or the like.
Example
Pronunciation
Credibility
Cliche
7. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Internal Preview
Invalid Analogy
Frame of Reference
Eye Contact
8. Numerical data.
Speaker
Question of Policy
Statistics
Topic
9. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Spatial Order
Message
Problem-Solution Order
Alliteration
10. The average value of a group of numbers.
Preview Statement
Specific Purpose
Mean
Kinesics
11. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Generic 'he'
Maintenance Needs
Simile
Ethos
12. A carefully prepared and rehearsed speech that is presented from a brief set of notes.
Pause
Hasty Generalization
Speaking Outline
Extemporaneous Speech
13. The name used by Aristotle for the logical appeal of a speaker. The two major elements of logos are evidence and reasoning.
Maintenance Needs
Preview Statement
Logos
Causal Reasoning
14. A statement in the introduction of a speech that identifies the main points to be discussed in the body of the speech.
Preview Statement
Message
Interference
Frame of Reference
15. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Gestures
Critical Thinking
Conversational Quality
Task Needs
16. A group of two people.
Incremental Plagiarism
Example
Scale Questions
Dyad
17. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Situational Audience Analysis
Fallacy
Gestures
Ethnocentrism
18. A speech delivered with little or no immediate preparation.
Active Listening
Invalid Analogy
Impromptu Speech
Antithesis
19. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Example
Key-word Outline
Terminal Credibility
Brief Example
20. A set of unstated individual goals that may conflict with the goals of the group as a whole.
Causal Reasoning
Hidden Agenda
Consensus
Dissolve Ending
21. Questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
Inflections
Eye Contact
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Dyad
22. A detailed outline developed during the process of speech preparation that includes the title - specific purpose - central idea - introduction - main points - sub points - connectives - conclusion - and bibliography of a speech.
Nonverbal Communication
Emergent Leader
Ethics
Preparation Outline
23. A statement in the body of the speech that lets the audience know what the speaker is going to discuss next.
Internal Preview
Stereo-typing
Hearing
Interference
24. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as emotional appeal.
Crescendo Ending
Comprehensive Listening
Pathos
Repetition
25. An error in causal reasoning in which a speaker mistakenly assumes that because one event follow another - the first event is the cause of the second. This error is often known by it's Latin name meaning - 'after this - therefore because of this.'
False Cause
Question of Policy
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Panel Discussion
26. To restate or summarize an author's ideas in one's own words.
Ethnocentrism
Scale Questions
Paraphrase
Eye Contact
27. The use of 'he' to refer to both men and women.
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28. A word or phrase that indicates when a speaker has finished one thought and is moving on to another.
Connective
Transition
Bill of Rights
Criteria
29. Failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people.
Incremental Plagiarism
Evidence
Symposium
Causal Reasoning
30. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Critical Thinking
Spatial Order
Creating Common Grounds
Dissolve Ending
31. Listening to understand the message of a speaker.
Stereo-typing
Reasoning
Generic 'he'
Comprehensive Listening
32. A small group formed to solve a particular problem.
Problem Solving (small)
Spatial Order
Active Listening
Symposium
33. A group decision that is acceptable to all members of the group.
Consensus
Supporting Materials
Paraphrase
Rate
34. Quotations or paraphrases used to support a point.
Testimony
Hasty Generalization
Central Idea
Nonverbal Communication
35. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Emphatic Listening
Egocentrism
Attitude
Analogical Reasoning
36. An error in reasoning.
Either-Or
Delivery Cues
Comprehensive Listening
Fallacy
37. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Pitch
Clutter
Demographic Audience Analysis
Extemporaneous Speech
38. Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that which is true for the first case is also true for the second.
Bill of Rights
Situation
Gestures
Analogical Reasoning
39. The time and place in which speech communication occurs.
Situation
Symposium
Reasoning from Specific Instances
Open-Ended Questions
40. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Bandwagon
Problem-Solution Order
Abstract Words
Hypothetical Example
41. An implicit comparison - not introduced with the word 'like' or 'as' - between two things that are essentially different yet have something in common.
Metaphor
Question of Policy
Hidden Agenda
Evidence
42. Listening to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting it or rejecting it.
Comprehensive Listening
Critical Listening
Hypothetical Example
Expert Testimony
43. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Paraphrase
Visual Framework
Pronunciation
Terminal Credibility
44. The process of drawing a conclusion on the basis of evidence.
Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Reasoning
Connotative Meaning
45. A question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken.
Speech of Presentation
Reasoning
Question of Policy
Scale Questions
46. A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
Adrenaline
Monotone
Plagiarism
Supporting Materials
47. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Evidence
Speech of Introduction
Procedural Needs
Ethos
48. Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Appreciative Listening
Audience-Centeredness
Open-Ended Questions
Kinesics
49. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Reasoning from Principle
Pronunciation
Repetition
Ethos
50. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Crescendo Ending
Invalid Analogy
Oral Report
Frame of Reference