ENGL230 Quiz Week 3
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ENGL230 Quiz Week 3
What type of presentation educates listeners to help them gain or improve on specific skills…
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ENGL230 Quiz Week 3
ENGL230 Quiz Week 3
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(TCO 4) In adapting to listeners, speakers have to take into account the __________ levels of the audience.
Knowledge, acceptance, and interest
Acceptance, rejection, and intelligence
Knowledge, size, and range
Acceptance, size, and rejection
(TCO 4) Which type of presentation is designed to answer “How” questions, such as “How
does this work?”
Demonstration
Explanation
Entertaining
Persuasion
(TCO 4) What presentations share information, shape perceptions, and set agendas?
Point by point
Persuasive
Entertaining
Informative
(TCO 4) What type of presentation educates listeners to help them gain or improve on specific skills?
Regular, scheduled meetings
Training
Report
Briefing
(TCO 4) Descriptive presentations seek to satisfy audience members’ need to:
Have facts, figures, and other data
Learn how to do something
See how something works
Have order
(TCO 4) Successful informative presentations:
Motivate audience curiosity
Connect with audience values
Give audience members a reason to listen
All of the above
(TCO 4) How does the chronological pattern organize main points?
In order of importance
In a geographical sequence
In a time sequence
In a cause and effect sequence
(TCO 4) Which criterion should a speaker rely on in choosing the best pattern of organization for a presentation?
The goal of the presentation determines the pattern
The size of the audience determines the pattern
The length of the speech determines the pattern
The number of main points determines the pattern
(TCO 4) What type of informative presentation addresses “what” questions?
Explanation
Persuasion
Demonstration
Description
(TCO 4) Which of the following actions can a speaker take to help listeners best overcome their physiological noise?
Make sure that a microphone is present
Make sure the presentation is interesting and captivating
Make sure to use a range of voice inflections and pacing
Make sure to adjust the temperature in the room the night before
(TCO 5) Which type of persuasive presentation serves to maintain the status quo and strengthen the audience’s attitudes, values, and beliefs?
Refutation
Call to action
Reinforcement
Explanation
(TCO 5) Maslow’s system of needs is based on the argument that __________ level needs must be satisfied before __________ level needs can be motivating factors.
Higher; lower
Larger; smaller
Lower; higher
Lower; lower
(TCO 5) What does the use of the listener’s perspective in a persuasive presentation mean?
Understanding what makes the listener tick
Understanding what motivates the speaker
Describing what makes the speaker tick to the audience
Relating to the audience on a new level
(TCO 5) __________ means an audience can be persuaded on the basis of who the source is or what the source said.
Opinion
Source credibility
Trustworthiness
Resources
(TCO 5) Of the three components of source credibility, which deals with the way a source is perceived, in terms of being honest, friendly, warm, agreeable, or safe?
Trustworthiness
Dynamism
Competence
Eccentricity
(TCO 5) One important way a speaker gains extrinsic credibility is through:
A forceful conclusion to the presentation
Citation of all sources of data
The strong introduction given about the speaker
Another speaker preceding the main speaker
(TCO 5) Speeches for special occasions in the workplace always require:
Senior executives
Formal attire
Brevity
Focus on success
(TCO 5) Which of the following components is found in a persuasive presentation but should not be incorporated in an informative presentation?
Support material
Call to action
Humor
External sources
(TCO 5) In all public speaking situations, it is important to do which of the following?
Analyze the audience demographics
Identify the reasons for the audience members’ presence
Understand the organizational culture and environmental dynamics
All of the above
(TCO 5) When preparing an introduction, what question should the introducer always keep in mind?
Who is the speaker?
What will the speaker want me to say?
How long has the audience been there?
What is meaningful to this group?