CMN 001 Final questions with correct
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3 Criteria for a public speaking situation - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Having a communicative
intention/purpose
2. Uninterrupted speaking time
3. Multiple listeners
A successful speech achieves what? - correct answer ✔✔ A communicative purpose that is
measured by the degree to which our intention is understood by the receiver
What are the 3 purposes you can have in a public speaking situation? - correct answer ✔✔ To
inform (i.e. telling someone you are going to the store)
To persuade (in an interview to persuade to hire you)
To entertain (telling someone about a party you went to
Multiple listeners - correct answer ✔✔ Means more than 2 people listening
Dyadic communication - correct answer ✔✔ one sender and one receiver in a face-to-face, 1-
on-1 interaction.
Immediacy factor - correct answer ✔✔ the presence of a live person with a message creates
immediacy by making that message more real and more important.
The live speaker ENGAGES the person through tone, body language, enthusiasm, etc.
,3 Forms of speech delivery - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Formal
2. Impromptu
3. Extemporaneous
Formal speech - correct answer ✔✔ a speech that is written out word-for-word in advance but
still uses oral composition
Advantages and disadvantages to formal speech - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages:
1. bc you know exactly what you are going to say in advance, the speaker has precise control
over language.
2. can be read or memorized
Disadvantages:
1. hard to memorize so are usually read
2. Lose interaction, personality with speaker, with speaker if they are just read
3. Boring
4. Inflexible**
Impromptu speech - correct answer ✔✔ Speech that is not planned in advance
Impromptu speech advantages and disadvantages - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages: no
preparation, so there is a lot of flexibility in speaking***, conversational
Disadvantages: Lack of preparation/practice could result in you blanking out or you say too
many things to just fill space
Extemporaneous speech - correct answer ✔✔ prepare in advance what you want to say and
practice the key parts of it, and you speak conversationally.
,Extemporaneous speech advantages and disadvantages - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages:
- take prep, practice, and control from formal speeches
- takes flexibility and natural conversational quality from impromptu
- Can incorporate evidence and supporting materials
Disadvantages
- Can be more difficult to practice than formal and more prep than impromptu
- May not be appropriate in some contexts
3 types of reactions that cause anxiety in public speaking - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Confrontation
reaction
2. anticipation reaction
3. Adaptation reaction
Confrontation reaction - correct answer ✔✔ public speaking anxiety that causes physiological
symptoms when giving a speech like shaky hands, flushed face, butterflies, etc. This is caused by
adrenaline and lasts around 90 seconds. Overcome by extreme habituation
Anticipation Reaction - correct answer ✔✔ anxiety caused by thinking about having to give a
speech
Adaptation reaction - correct answer ✔✔ After confrontation reaction, the gradual slowing of
the heart rate and other physiological symptoms.
You can actively pay attention to and monitor the adaptation reaction!
3 Irrational Fears that increase anxiety - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Illusion of transparency
, 2. Spotlight effect
3. Expectation of perfection
Illusion of transparency vs. reality - correct answer ✔✔ Thinking the listeners can "see right
through" you and know how you feel.
In reality, audiences can't see indicators of your stress like blushing or dilated pupils.
Spotlight effect vs. reality - correct answer ✔✔ When you feel like everyone in the audience is
staring at you intently and scrutinizing your every move.
Reality: listeners, like most people, are focused on themselves more than you so we only have a
portion of our listeners intention anyway
Expectation of perfection - correct answer ✔✔ pressure speakers put on themselves to be
perfect. Probably the most damaging and comes from having a performance orientation to the
speech
5 strategies to increase confidence in speaking - correct answer ✔✔ 1. View public speaking as
an opportunity to do one of the 3 purposes (relates to immediacy factor to get a bigger impact)
2. Visualization: picturing yourself presenting your speech and focusing on what could go right
over wrong
3. Relabeling: assigning positive words to feelings/reactions associated w/ speech anxiety
4. Deep breathing: diaphragmatic breathing
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3 Criteria for a public speaking situation - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Having a communicative
intention/purpose
2. Uninterrupted speaking time
3. Multiple listeners
A successful speech achieves what? - correct answer ✔✔ A communicative purpose that is
measured by the degree to which our intention is understood by the receiver
What are the 3 purposes you can have in a public speaking situation? - correct answer ✔✔ To
inform (i.e. telling someone you are going to the store)
To persuade (in an interview to persuade to hire you)
To entertain (telling someone about a party you went to
Multiple listeners - correct answer ✔✔ Means more than 2 people listening
Dyadic communication - correct answer ✔✔ one sender and one receiver in a face-to-face, 1-
on-1 interaction.
Immediacy factor - correct answer ✔✔ the presence of a live person with a message creates
immediacy by making that message more real and more important.
The live speaker ENGAGES the person through tone, body language, enthusiasm, etc.
,3 Forms of speech delivery - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Formal
2. Impromptu
3. Extemporaneous
Formal speech - correct answer ✔✔ a speech that is written out word-for-word in advance but
still uses oral composition
Advantages and disadvantages to formal speech - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages:
1. bc you know exactly what you are going to say in advance, the speaker has precise control
over language.
2. can be read or memorized
Disadvantages:
1. hard to memorize so are usually read
2. Lose interaction, personality with speaker, with speaker if they are just read
3. Boring
4. Inflexible**
Impromptu speech - correct answer ✔✔ Speech that is not planned in advance
Impromptu speech advantages and disadvantages - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages: no
preparation, so there is a lot of flexibility in speaking***, conversational
Disadvantages: Lack of preparation/practice could result in you blanking out or you say too
many things to just fill space
Extemporaneous speech - correct answer ✔✔ prepare in advance what you want to say and
practice the key parts of it, and you speak conversationally.
,Extemporaneous speech advantages and disadvantages - correct answer ✔✔ Advantages:
- take prep, practice, and control from formal speeches
- takes flexibility and natural conversational quality from impromptu
- Can incorporate evidence and supporting materials
Disadvantages
- Can be more difficult to practice than formal and more prep than impromptu
- May not be appropriate in some contexts
3 types of reactions that cause anxiety in public speaking - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Confrontation
reaction
2. anticipation reaction
3. Adaptation reaction
Confrontation reaction - correct answer ✔✔ public speaking anxiety that causes physiological
symptoms when giving a speech like shaky hands, flushed face, butterflies, etc. This is caused by
adrenaline and lasts around 90 seconds. Overcome by extreme habituation
Anticipation Reaction - correct answer ✔✔ anxiety caused by thinking about having to give a
speech
Adaptation reaction - correct answer ✔✔ After confrontation reaction, the gradual slowing of
the heart rate and other physiological symptoms.
You can actively pay attention to and monitor the adaptation reaction!
3 Irrational Fears that increase anxiety - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Illusion of transparency
, 2. Spotlight effect
3. Expectation of perfection
Illusion of transparency vs. reality - correct answer ✔✔ Thinking the listeners can "see right
through" you and know how you feel.
In reality, audiences can't see indicators of your stress like blushing or dilated pupils.
Spotlight effect vs. reality - correct answer ✔✔ When you feel like everyone in the audience is
staring at you intently and scrutinizing your every move.
Reality: listeners, like most people, are focused on themselves more than you so we only have a
portion of our listeners intention anyway
Expectation of perfection - correct answer ✔✔ pressure speakers put on themselves to be
perfect. Probably the most damaging and comes from having a performance orientation to the
speech
5 strategies to increase confidence in speaking - correct answer ✔✔ 1. View public speaking as
an opportunity to do one of the 3 purposes (relates to immediacy factor to get a bigger impact)
2. Visualization: picturing yourself presenting your speech and focusing on what could go right
over wrong
3. Relabeling: assigning positive words to feelings/reactions associated w/ speech anxiety
4. Deep breathing: diaphragmatic breathing
