SPC 2608 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Public speaking - ANSWERSIs the process of presenting a message to an audience
Critical thinking - ANSWERSAnalyzing information to judge its accuracy and relevance
Empowerment - ANSWERSHaving resources and attitudes that lead to action to achieve the desired goal
Source - ANSWERSThe public speaker
Message - ANSWERSThe content of a speech and the mode of its delivery
Channels - ANSWERSThe means by which a message is transmitted
Receiver - ANSWERSA listener or an audience
Noise - ANSWERSExternal and internal
External Noise - ANSWERSIs the physical sounds that interfere with communication
Internal Noise - ANSWERSPsychological
Encode - ANSWERSTo translate ideas and images into verbal or nonverbal symbols
Code - ANSWERSA verbal or nonverbal symbol for an idea or image
, Decode - ANSWERSTo translate verbal or nonverbal symbols into ideas or messages
Feedback - ANSWERSThe verbal and nonverbal responses provided by an audience to a speaker
Context - ANSWERSThe environment or situation in which a speech occurs
Two Way Exchange of Communication - ANSWERSThink of communication as a simultaneous process
where the speaker and audience send
Rhetoric - ANSWERSThe golden age of public speaking, The use of words and symbols to achieve a goal
Declamation - ANSWERSThe delivery of an already famous speech
Elocution - ANSWERSThe expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expression,
and voice
Five classical canons are what? - ANSWERS1. Invention
2. Arrangement
3. Style
4. Memory
5. Delivery
Average style - ANSWERSgenerally positive approach, average heart rate
Insensitive style - ANSWERSa lot of experience with low heart rate
Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Public speaking - ANSWERSIs the process of presenting a message to an audience
Critical thinking - ANSWERSAnalyzing information to judge its accuracy and relevance
Empowerment - ANSWERSHaving resources and attitudes that lead to action to achieve the desired goal
Source - ANSWERSThe public speaker
Message - ANSWERSThe content of a speech and the mode of its delivery
Channels - ANSWERSThe means by which a message is transmitted
Receiver - ANSWERSA listener or an audience
Noise - ANSWERSExternal and internal
External Noise - ANSWERSIs the physical sounds that interfere with communication
Internal Noise - ANSWERSPsychological
Encode - ANSWERSTo translate ideas and images into verbal or nonverbal symbols
Code - ANSWERSA verbal or nonverbal symbol for an idea or image
, Decode - ANSWERSTo translate verbal or nonverbal symbols into ideas or messages
Feedback - ANSWERSThe verbal and nonverbal responses provided by an audience to a speaker
Context - ANSWERSThe environment or situation in which a speech occurs
Two Way Exchange of Communication - ANSWERSThink of communication as a simultaneous process
where the speaker and audience send
Rhetoric - ANSWERSThe golden age of public speaking, The use of words and symbols to achieve a goal
Declamation - ANSWERSThe delivery of an already famous speech
Elocution - ANSWERSThe expression of emotion through posture, movement, gesture, facial expression,
and voice
Five classical canons are what? - ANSWERS1. Invention
2. Arrangement
3. Style
4. Memory
5. Delivery
Average style - ANSWERSgenerally positive approach, average heart rate
Insensitive style - ANSWERSa lot of experience with low heart rate
