PUBLIC SPEAKING FINAL QUIZ
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Types of listening - Answer-Appreciative: Listening for pleasure, enjoyment.
Empathic: Listening to provide emotional support for the speaker.
Comprehensive: Listening to understand the message.
Critical: Listening to evaluate the message.
Causes of poor listening - Answer-Not concentrating
Listening too hard
Jumping to conclusions
Focusing on delivery, appearance
How to be a better listener - Answer-Take listening seriously
Be active listener
Resist distractions
Don't be diverted by appearance, delivery
Suspend judgment
Develop note-taking skills
Focus your listening
Focused Listening - Answer-Listen for:
- main points
- evidence
- technique
Brainstorming - Answer-- Personal Inventory
- Know and want to know strategy
- Inventory of experiences, hobbies, interests, beliefs, etc.
- Clustering-people, events, concepts, places, processes, natural phenomena, things,
problems, plans and policies
- Internet search-Encylcopedia or Dictionary strategies
General purpose: - Answer-Determining the General Purpose:
Falls into one of two overlapping categories
To inform or to persuade
When informing you are acting as a teacher: presenting information clearly, accurately,
and interestingly
When persuading you are acting as an advocate with the purpose of changing or
structuring the attitudes of audience.
Specific Purpose: - Answer-Determining the Specific Purpose
Should focus on one component of a topic
Should be one infinitive phrase
, To inform my audience about..or to persuade my audience about...
Let's say after brainstorming I've decided my topic is going to be music therapy...
Topic: Music Therapy
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the benefits of music therapy for people
with psychological or cognitive disabilities.
Make sure you are considerate of who your audience is!
Central Idea: - Answer-A one-sentence statement that sums up the major ideas of the
speech
A simple declarative statement
What is your residual message?
What should the audience remember?
Should be expressed in a full sentence
Express as a statement, not a question
Avoid figurative language
Make sure it is not too vague or too general
Audience centered-what does it mean, what characteristics do we have to consider? -
Answer-Meaning: Audience foremost in mind during speech preparation, presentation.
Consider: To whom am I speaking?
What do I want them to know, believe, do?
What is most effective way of accomplishing that?
Communication model-identify parts and explain - Answer-Sender
Message
Noise
Recipient
Receiver
Types of supporting materials. Use of different types of examples, statistics and
testimony: - Answer-Examples: Specific case to illustrate ideas
Brief: Specific case referred to in passing to illustrate point.
Extended: Story, narrative, anecdote developed at length to illustrate point.
Hypothetical: Example describing fictitious situation
Statistics:
Mean: Average
Median: Middle
Mode: Number occurring the most
Testimony: Quotations or paraphrases used to support point.
Expert: Testimony from recognized experts.
Peer: Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience, insight.
Direct quote: Testimony presented word for word.
Out-of-context quote: Distorting statement by removing words, phrases around it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Types of listening - Answer-Appreciative: Listening for pleasure, enjoyment.
Empathic: Listening to provide emotional support for the speaker.
Comprehensive: Listening to understand the message.
Critical: Listening to evaluate the message.
Causes of poor listening - Answer-Not concentrating
Listening too hard
Jumping to conclusions
Focusing on delivery, appearance
How to be a better listener - Answer-Take listening seriously
Be active listener
Resist distractions
Don't be diverted by appearance, delivery
Suspend judgment
Develop note-taking skills
Focus your listening
Focused Listening - Answer-Listen for:
- main points
- evidence
- technique
Brainstorming - Answer-- Personal Inventory
- Know and want to know strategy
- Inventory of experiences, hobbies, interests, beliefs, etc.
- Clustering-people, events, concepts, places, processes, natural phenomena, things,
problems, plans and policies
- Internet search-Encylcopedia or Dictionary strategies
General purpose: - Answer-Determining the General Purpose:
Falls into one of two overlapping categories
To inform or to persuade
When informing you are acting as a teacher: presenting information clearly, accurately,
and interestingly
When persuading you are acting as an advocate with the purpose of changing or
structuring the attitudes of audience.
Specific Purpose: - Answer-Determining the Specific Purpose
Should focus on one component of a topic
Should be one infinitive phrase
, To inform my audience about..or to persuade my audience about...
Let's say after brainstorming I've decided my topic is going to be music therapy...
Topic: Music Therapy
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the benefits of music therapy for people
with psychological or cognitive disabilities.
Make sure you are considerate of who your audience is!
Central Idea: - Answer-A one-sentence statement that sums up the major ideas of the
speech
A simple declarative statement
What is your residual message?
What should the audience remember?
Should be expressed in a full sentence
Express as a statement, not a question
Avoid figurative language
Make sure it is not too vague or too general
Audience centered-what does it mean, what characteristics do we have to consider? -
Answer-Meaning: Audience foremost in mind during speech preparation, presentation.
Consider: To whom am I speaking?
What do I want them to know, believe, do?
What is most effective way of accomplishing that?
Communication model-identify parts and explain - Answer-Sender
Message
Noise
Recipient
Receiver
Types of supporting materials. Use of different types of examples, statistics and
testimony: - Answer-Examples: Specific case to illustrate ideas
Brief: Specific case referred to in passing to illustrate point.
Extended: Story, narrative, anecdote developed at length to illustrate point.
Hypothetical: Example describing fictitious situation
Statistics:
Mean: Average
Median: Middle
Mode: Number occurring the most
Testimony: Quotations or paraphrases used to support point.
Expert: Testimony from recognized experts.
Peer: Testimony from ordinary people with firsthand experience, insight.
Direct quote: Testimony presented word for word.
Out-of-context quote: Distorting statement by removing words, phrases around it.
