C464 WGU UPDATED EXAMS ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Factual Speeches - ✔✔argues for the truth or falsity of a given assertion
argue for change in an audience based on better factual knowledge in the presentation.
✔✔Policy Speeches - ✔✔describes a certain social or political problem and then seeks
to lay out the specifics of a solution to that problem
aims to present specific, official solutions to a particular social or political problem
✔✔Value Speeches - ✔✔argues the virtue, accuracy, and soundness of a particular
judgment
argues a change of attitude, belief, or behavior based on a beginning principle or value.
✔✔psychological reactance theory - ✔✔persuasive messages threaten an audience's
feeling of freedom to think, believe, and act as they wish
Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981)
✔✔Boomerang effect - ✔✔states that people actually strengthen or reinforce existing
beliefs when encouraged to change them
✔✔Monroe's Motivated Sequence - ✔✔A method of structuring and presenting ideas
uses time-testing and research -validated logic for persuading audiences in educational
, business, and sales situations
✔✔two-sided message with refutation). - ✔✔Present both sides of the issue, but refute
the validity, accuracy, or defensibility of the opposing side
✔✔counterarguments - ✔✔dismantle any potential objections from your audience, but
also those that subsequent speakers may raise
✔✔Fear appeals - ✔✔seek to influence audience members to change because they are
scared of the consequences of not doing so
✔✔informative speaking - ✔✔involves teaching people something that has some basis
in fact
✔✔Verbal citations - ✔✔a verbal reference to your source
demonstrate your command of a topic and show your audience that you are well read
and familiar with the evidence on your subject.
, ✔✔"Hard" Forms of Evidence - ✔✔Facts, data, statistics, physical evidence, and the
conclusions of known experts can be powerful forms of support for a presentation
✔✔verbal plagiarism - ✔✔presenting someone else's ideas as if they were your own,
without giving the source credit
✔✔recency effect - ✔✔end the body of the speech with the most compelling piece of
evidence last.
✔✔primacy effect - ✔✔lead the body of the speech with the most compelling piece of
evidence forst
✔✔sensory aids - ✔✔supporting devices appeal to one or more of the five senses
✔✔thesis statement - ✔✔is a brief, one-sentence summary of the central idea of your
presentation and includes the answer to the question "why this topic for this audience?"
✔✔Full-content outlines - ✔✔consist of the entire introduction and conclusion, written
out word for word; additionally, they include all of your main points, transitions,
examples, and evidence, written out in complete sentences
✔✔abbreviated outline - ✔✔an outline that uses short phrases and allows you to glance
at key words and phrases, rather than complete sentences. and deliver your
presentation in a dynamic conversational manner.
✔✔general purpose statement - ✔✔reveals whether your talk is informative or
persuasive and states your presentation topic
✔✔linear framework - ✔✔a clear, straightforward, direct, fact-based approach to
organizing a presentation
✔✔strategy of pathos - ✔✔Justin details instances of animal abuse to convince his
audience to boycott all theme park locations owned and operated by a specific
company.
Correct. Justin provokes a specific emotional response from his audience in order to
make them more receptive to his message. In this example, Justin uses the rhetorical
strategy of pathos.
✔✔ Assumptions of the contemporary approach to public speaking? - ✔✔Your
credibility as a speaker and the emotional and logical appeals you employ are critical.
Great presentations are often communicated in much the same way that you tell a good
story.
Your attitude plays a role in effective public speaking.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Factual Speeches - ✔✔argues for the truth or falsity of a given assertion
argue for change in an audience based on better factual knowledge in the presentation.
✔✔Policy Speeches - ✔✔describes a certain social or political problem and then seeks
to lay out the specifics of a solution to that problem
aims to present specific, official solutions to a particular social or political problem
✔✔Value Speeches - ✔✔argues the virtue, accuracy, and soundness of a particular
judgment
argues a change of attitude, belief, or behavior based on a beginning principle or value.
✔✔psychological reactance theory - ✔✔persuasive messages threaten an audience's
feeling of freedom to think, believe, and act as they wish
Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981)
✔✔Boomerang effect - ✔✔states that people actually strengthen or reinforce existing
beliefs when encouraged to change them
✔✔Monroe's Motivated Sequence - ✔✔A method of structuring and presenting ideas
uses time-testing and research -validated logic for persuading audiences in educational
, business, and sales situations
✔✔two-sided message with refutation). - ✔✔Present both sides of the issue, but refute
the validity, accuracy, or defensibility of the opposing side
✔✔counterarguments - ✔✔dismantle any potential objections from your audience, but
also those that subsequent speakers may raise
✔✔Fear appeals - ✔✔seek to influence audience members to change because they are
scared of the consequences of not doing so
✔✔informative speaking - ✔✔involves teaching people something that has some basis
in fact
✔✔Verbal citations - ✔✔a verbal reference to your source
demonstrate your command of a topic and show your audience that you are well read
and familiar with the evidence on your subject.
, ✔✔"Hard" Forms of Evidence - ✔✔Facts, data, statistics, physical evidence, and the
conclusions of known experts can be powerful forms of support for a presentation
✔✔verbal plagiarism - ✔✔presenting someone else's ideas as if they were your own,
without giving the source credit
✔✔recency effect - ✔✔end the body of the speech with the most compelling piece of
evidence last.
✔✔primacy effect - ✔✔lead the body of the speech with the most compelling piece of
evidence forst
✔✔sensory aids - ✔✔supporting devices appeal to one or more of the five senses
✔✔thesis statement - ✔✔is a brief, one-sentence summary of the central idea of your
presentation and includes the answer to the question "why this topic for this audience?"
✔✔Full-content outlines - ✔✔consist of the entire introduction and conclusion, written
out word for word; additionally, they include all of your main points, transitions,
examples, and evidence, written out in complete sentences
✔✔abbreviated outline - ✔✔an outline that uses short phrases and allows you to glance
at key words and phrases, rather than complete sentences. and deliver your
presentation in a dynamic conversational manner.
✔✔general purpose statement - ✔✔reveals whether your talk is informative or
persuasive and states your presentation topic
✔✔linear framework - ✔✔a clear, straightforward, direct, fact-based approach to
organizing a presentation
✔✔strategy of pathos - ✔✔Justin details instances of animal abuse to convince his
audience to boycott all theme park locations owned and operated by a specific
company.
Correct. Justin provokes a specific emotional response from his audience in order to
make them more receptive to his message. In this example, Justin uses the rhetorical
strategy of pathos.
✔✔ Assumptions of the contemporary approach to public speaking? - ✔✔Your
credibility as a speaker and the emotional and logical appeals you employ are critical.
Great presentations are often communicated in much the same way that you tell a good
story.
Your attitude plays a role in effective public speaking.
