public speaking final ch. 1

How is public speaking similar to everyday conversation?

� Public speaking is similar to everyday conversation because you have to organize your thoughts logically, you have to tailor the message to your audience, you must tell a story for maximum impact and you have to adapt to feedback..

How is public speaking different from conversation?

� Public speaking is more highly structured, it requires more formal language and it requires different method of delivery.

How can you control your nervousness and make it work for you in your favor

� By acquiring speech experience, by preparing, think positively, use the power of visualization, know that most nervousness is not visible, and don't expect perfection

What are the seven elements of the speech communication process?

� Speaker the one presenting the speech, message whatever a speaker communicated to someone else , channel: means by which a message is communicated, listener: the person who receives the communicated message, feedback: the messages usually non verbal sen

What is ethnocentrism?

Believing ones group of culture is superior to all other groups or cultures

How can you avoid ethnocentrism

� Respect listeners cultural values, adapt messages to audiences expectations, imagine yourself in the place of the listeners, and be alert to feedback.

What is a frame of reference?

� The some of a person's Knowledge, experience, goals, values and attitudes.

What are the four aspects of critical thinking?

� Having focused organized thinking, finding relationships among ideas, soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion.