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What percent of a presentation does the Intro make up? - Answer 10% What percent of a presentation does the Body make up? - Answer 85% What percent of a presentation does the Conclusion make up? - Answer 5% What should be included in the Intro? - Answer capture attention of the audience, establish credibility, relate material to audience, announce topic, preview main points What should be included in the Body? - Answer supporting evidence and research

Incremental (1) - Answer failing to give credit for paraphrased material (1) Presentation Process (1) - Answer 1. Select Topic 2. Determine Purpose 3. Research 4. Organize 5. Practice (1) communication apprehension (1) - Answer inability to make a speech caused by psychological factors > can be helped by training/counseling (1) inoculation AA (2) - Answer technique used to make people immune to attempts to change their attitude by first exposing them to small argument...

Clincher - Answer The final remark that you will make to your audience Introduction - Answer Capture the attention of your audience, establish your credibility, relate the material to your audience, announce the topic of the speech, preview the main points of the speech; makes up 10% of the entire speech Body - Answer Supporting evidence and research; makes up 85% of the entire speech Conclusion - Answer Restate the thesis, restate the main points, end with a clincher; makes...

Reasons we communicate - Answer • Need Satisfaction • Needs include o physical needs (need to connect as humans) o identity needs (build our identity) o social needs (isolation doesn't work for us) o practical goals (accomplish goals) Dynamic and transactional - Answer Communication is both a . . . and a . . . process sender, receiver, encode, decode, message, channel, context, feedback, noise - Answer 9 components of the process of communication sender - Answer ...

Reasons we communicate - Answer • Need Satisfaction • Needs include o physical needs (need to connect as humans) o identity needs (build our identity) o social needs (isolation doesn't work for us) o practical goals (accomplish goals) Dynamic and transactional - Answer Communication is both a . . . and a . . . process sender, receiver, encode, decode, message, channel, context, feedback, noise - Answer 9 components of the process of communication sender - Answer ...

hearing - Answer the passive physiological act of of receiving sound that takes place when sound eaves hit your eardrums. ex. if someone hits their desks the resulting sound waves hit your eardrums listening - Answer the active process of receiving, attending to, interpreting, and responding to symbolic activity ex. taking in what people are saying receiving - Answer first step in listening when sensory stimuli as sound waves travel from the source of the sound to your eardrums ...

Properties of economic fluctuations - Answer 1) Co-movement in economic aggregates 2) Limited predictability 3) Persistence in the rate of growth The Great Depression of 1929‒1933 illustrates the three key properties of economic fluctuations Aggregate - Answer A whole formed by combining several (typically different) elements Marginal product of labor - Answer When output price rises, the labor demand curve shifts to the right - more labor is demanded at each wage When ...

Economic Agent - Answer Any group or individual that makes choices. What is Economics the study of? - Answer How agents make choices among scarce resources and how those choices affect society Scarcity - Answer A situation of having unlimited wants in a world of limited resources When are resources scarce? - Answer Resources are scarce when the quantity that people want exceeds the quantity that is available Positive Economics - Answer Describes what people actually do...

Potential Workers - Answer Civilian non institutional population- everyone except children under 16, active military, institutionalized persons Employed - Answer Have a paid full time or part time job Unemployed - Answer No job, but are available for work and have looked for a job in the past 4 weeks Labor Force - Answer Unemployed +employed Not in labor force - Answer Persons without paid job and not actively searching for one Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) ...

Money - Answer Medium of Exchange Store of Value Unit of Account Equation for Growth of GDP - Answer Nominal GDP - Inflation Equation for Quantity Theory of Money - Answer Inflation Rate = Growth Rate (M2) - Growth rate GDP What can inflation do? - Answer Lower real wage rates and real interest rates What do lower fed funds rates do? - Answer Shift demand curve to the left and banks to hold more reserves What do higher fed funds rates do? - Answer Shift demand ...