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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. Substantive actions necessary to help a small group complete its assigned task.
Task Needs
Visual Framework
Dissolve Ending
Pitch
2. The vibration of sound waves on the eardrums and the firing of electrochemical impulses in the brain.
Reasoning from Principle
Hearing
Repetition
Generic 'he'
3. Questions that require responses at fixed intervals along a scale of answers.
Imagery
Scale Questions
Pronunciation
Egocentrism
4. Creating an oversimplified image of a particular group of people - usually be assuming that all members of the group are alike.
Residual Message
Causal Reasoning
Oral Report
Stereo-typing
5. Motions of a speaker's hands or arms during a speech.
Gestures
Problem Solving (small)
Cliche
Reasoning from Principle
6. The use of language to defame - demean - or degrade individuals or groups.
Strategic Organization
Topic
Name-calling
Task Needs
7. The ability to influence group members so as to help achieve the goals of the group.
Implied Leader
Vocal Variety
Ethical Decisions
Leadership
8. A fallacy that forces listeners to choose between two alternatives when more than two alternatives exist.
Hidden Agenda
Manuscript Speech
Either-Or
Invalid Analogy
9. 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.
Derived Credibility
Frame of Reference
Preparation Outline
Hypothetical Example
10. The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Oral Report
Bill of Rights
Signpost
Identification
11. Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience.
Ethical Decisions
Connective
Stage Fright
Oral Report
12. A group of two people.
Stage Fright
Channel
Problem-Solution Order
Dyad
13. The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures.
Delivery Cues
False Cause
Ethnocentrism
Generic 'he'
14. What a speaker would like the audience to remember after it has forgotten everything else in a speech.
Message
Testimony
Vocal Variety
Residual Message
15. The similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words - phrases - or sentences.
Positive nervousness
Listening
Red Herring
Parallelism
16. Changes in the pitch and tone of a speaker's voice.
Derived Credibility
Inflections
Speaking Outline
Scale Questions
17. Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words.
Specific Purpose
Alliteration
Global Plagiarism
Volume
18. A public presentation in which several people present prepared speeches on different aspects of the same topic.
Slippery Slope
Symposium
Statistics
Global Plagiarism
19. The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
Pronunciation
Panel Discussion
Attitude
Chronological Order
20. Communicative actions necessary to maintain interpersonal relations in a small group.
Creating Common Grounds
Maintenance Needs
Speech of Presentation
Statistics
21. The study of body motions as a systematic mode of communication.
Kinesics
Pathos
Dissolve Ending
Quoting out of Context
22. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas - usually in parallel structure.
Conversational Quality
Central Idea
Antithesis
Reasoning
23. The subject of a speech.
Vocalized Pause
Topic
Demographic Audience Analysis
Concrete Words
24. A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion.
Criteria
Speaker
Red Herring
Identification
25. A speech that gives thanks for a gift - an award - or some other form of public recognition.
Egocentrism
Attitude
Acceptance Speech
Rate
26. Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for his presentation.
Symposium
Interference
Positive nervousness
Mean
27. The difference between the rate at which most people talk and the rate at which the brain can process language.
Pronunciation
Concrete Words
Spare Brain Time
Causal Order
28. The pattern of symbolization and indentation in a speech outline that shows the relationships among the speaker's ideas.
Visual Framework
Peer Testimony
Preview Statement
Transition
29. Discourse that takes many more words than are necessary to express an idea.
Conversational Quality
Supporting Materials
Spatial Order
Clutter
30. Listening to provide emotional support for a speaker.
Situational Audience Analysis
Emphatic Listening
Ethical Decisions
Stage Fright
31. 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.
Criteria
Analogical Reasoning
Bibliography
Patchwork Plagiarism
32. The credibility of a speaker before he or she starts to speak.
Goodwill
Task Needs
Initial Credibility
Repetition
33. Supporting materials used to prove or disprove something.
Plagiarism
Name-calling
Patchwork Plagiarism
Evidence
34. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Interference
Paraphrase
Direct Quotation
Leadership
35. A fallacy which assumes that because something is popular - it is therefore good - correct - or desirable.
Bandwagon
Visual Framework
Central Idea
Metaphor
36. The credibility of a speaker produced by everything he says and does during the speech.
Derived Credibility
Repetition
Key-word Outline
Plagiarism
37. A statement in the body of the speech that summarizes the speaker's preceding point or points.
Internal Summary
Active Listening
Bandwagon
Reasoning
38. The name used by Aristotle for what modern students of communication refer to as credibility.
Ethos
Adrenaline
Procedural Needs
Bill of Rights
39. A technique in which a speaker connects himself with the values - attitudes - or experience of the audience.
Inflections
Expert Testimony
Preview Statement
Creating Common Grounds
40. An analogy in which the two cases being compared are not essentially alike.
Stereo-typing
Invalid Analogy
Adrenaline
Evidence
41. The sum of a person's knowledge - experience - goals - values - and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference.
Causal Reasoning
Acceptance Speech
Frame of Reference
Chronological Order
42. An outline that briefly notes a speaker's main points and supporting evidence in rough outline form.
Dissolve Ending
Fixed-Alternative Questions
Key-word Outline
Denotative Meaning
43. A momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
Ethnocentrism
Vocal Variety
Pause
Transition
44. Paying close attention to - and making sense of - what we hear.
Hasty Generalization
Listening
Dialect
Generic 'he'
45. The tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values - beliefs -
Delivery Cues
Ethics
Rhythm
Egocentrism
46. A collection of three to twelve people that assemble for a specific purpose.
Small Group
Pause
Articulation
Incremental Plagiarism
47. Routine 'housekeeping' actions necessary for the efficient conduct of business in a small group.
Connective
Critical Thinking
Expert Testimony
Procedural Needs
48. A frame of mind in favor of or opposed to a person - policy - belief - institution - etc.
Direct Quotation
Listening
Invalid Analogy
Attitude
49. An error in reasoning.
Fallacy
Statistics
Reasoning
Direct Quotation
50. A method of speech organization in which the main points show a cause-effect relationship.
Interference
Causal Order
Spatial Order
Speech of Presentation