PUBLIC SPEAKING TEST REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Where are communication skills highly valued? - Answer-Educational, professional, and
personal settings. Speaking, critical thinking, job interviews, writing, social setting ease.
What is the difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal communication? -
Answer-Interpersonal is communication between two people & intrapersonal is
communication is to ones self.
What is the definition of public speaking compared to the definition of mass
communication? - Answer-Mass communication is when a single person communicates
with a large number of UNKNOWN people.
Public Speaking is when a speaker delivers a message out loud to a known audience.
What is the difference between public speaking and mass communication? - Answer-
Public speaking is talking out loud to a known audience whereas mass communication
can be communicated in different ways (televised news, writing, social media, ect) to an
unknown audience.
What are benefits of speech crafting? - Answer-Be able to create clear and concise
speeches and have intended impact on listeners
When does communication begin? - Answer-Begins when there is a sender, the source
of the message being shared.
What is the definition of receiver? - Answer-People who hear and understand a
speaker's message, they assign meaning or decode the message.
What is the difference between decoding and encoding? - Answer-Senders encode
messages using words, images, gestures, and facial expressions to concert idea into
something listeners can understand.
Receivers decode messages and assign meaning to senders words and actions
What is the best explanation for public speaking anxiety? - Answer-A form of stress, an
Overwhelming emotion that prevents us from performing or speaking effectively
What is visualization? How can it be effective in managing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-Visualization is seeing yourself giving a successful speech. Helps give you a
positive perspective of your speech.
What is meant by ethical communication? - Answer-Communicating ethically means
treating people fairly, being honest, and avoiding immoral or hurtful behavior.
, What is positive self talk and how can it help in managing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-Approach delivery of speech with positive, optimistic attitude.
It helps relieve your body of negative effects of stress. Negative thoughts Can also turn
into self-fulfilling prophecy causing you to have a poor performance because you expect
too.
What is typically an audience's desire for a public speaker, and do most audience
members detect when a speaker is anxious? - Answer-Audiences want you too
succeed, and most audience members can't detect that your nervous
Overgeneralization - Answer-Thinking that one poor speech dooms all of your future
performances
Fortune-telling - Answer-Predicting that your speech is going to fail, no matter how
prepared you are
Jumping to conclusions - Answer-Assuming that you failed your speech before you
actually get your grade
All or nothing thinking - Answer-Believing that if anything goes wrong in your speech,
your entire speech is a failure
How is fight or flight or freeze response related to public speaking anxiety - Answer-
Makes your body either want to confront the source of stress or avoid it, by avoiding eye
contact or postponing the speech.
What do we call the body's reaction to stress? - Answer-Stressor
What are the three main areas of a human that are affected by public speaking anxiety?
- Answer-voice, mouth, throat, general movement, verbal behavior, and facial
expression
Explain the main cause of anticipatory anxiety - Answer-The worry felt when looking
ahead to a speech
What role does preparing your speech play in reducing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-The more you know your speech and practice lessens the anxiety of messing
up
Do college students spend more than half their day listening or talking? - Answer-
Listening
Social Noise - Answer-External, environmental. People around you talking
Structural Noise - Answer-
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Where are communication skills highly valued? - Answer-Educational, professional, and
personal settings. Speaking, critical thinking, job interviews, writing, social setting ease.
What is the difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal communication? -
Answer-Interpersonal is communication between two people & intrapersonal is
communication is to ones self.
What is the definition of public speaking compared to the definition of mass
communication? - Answer-Mass communication is when a single person communicates
with a large number of UNKNOWN people.
Public Speaking is when a speaker delivers a message out loud to a known audience.
What is the difference between public speaking and mass communication? - Answer-
Public speaking is talking out loud to a known audience whereas mass communication
can be communicated in different ways (televised news, writing, social media, ect) to an
unknown audience.
What are benefits of speech crafting? - Answer-Be able to create clear and concise
speeches and have intended impact on listeners
When does communication begin? - Answer-Begins when there is a sender, the source
of the message being shared.
What is the definition of receiver? - Answer-People who hear and understand a
speaker's message, they assign meaning or decode the message.
What is the difference between decoding and encoding? - Answer-Senders encode
messages using words, images, gestures, and facial expressions to concert idea into
something listeners can understand.
Receivers decode messages and assign meaning to senders words and actions
What is the best explanation for public speaking anxiety? - Answer-A form of stress, an
Overwhelming emotion that prevents us from performing or speaking effectively
What is visualization? How can it be effective in managing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-Visualization is seeing yourself giving a successful speech. Helps give you a
positive perspective of your speech.
What is meant by ethical communication? - Answer-Communicating ethically means
treating people fairly, being honest, and avoiding immoral or hurtful behavior.
, What is positive self talk and how can it help in managing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-Approach delivery of speech with positive, optimistic attitude.
It helps relieve your body of negative effects of stress. Negative thoughts Can also turn
into self-fulfilling prophecy causing you to have a poor performance because you expect
too.
What is typically an audience's desire for a public speaker, and do most audience
members detect when a speaker is anxious? - Answer-Audiences want you too
succeed, and most audience members can't detect that your nervous
Overgeneralization - Answer-Thinking that one poor speech dooms all of your future
performances
Fortune-telling - Answer-Predicting that your speech is going to fail, no matter how
prepared you are
Jumping to conclusions - Answer-Assuming that you failed your speech before you
actually get your grade
All or nothing thinking - Answer-Believing that if anything goes wrong in your speech,
your entire speech is a failure
How is fight or flight or freeze response related to public speaking anxiety - Answer-
Makes your body either want to confront the source of stress or avoid it, by avoiding eye
contact or postponing the speech.
What do we call the body's reaction to stress? - Answer-Stressor
What are the three main areas of a human that are affected by public speaking anxiety?
- Answer-voice, mouth, throat, general movement, verbal behavior, and facial
expression
Explain the main cause of anticipatory anxiety - Answer-The worry felt when looking
ahead to a speech
What role does preparing your speech play in reducing public speaking anxiety? -
Answer-The more you know your speech and practice lessens the anxiety of messing
up
Do college students spend more than half their day listening or talking? - Answer-
Listening
Social Noise - Answer-External, environmental. People around you talking
Structural Noise - Answer-
