Purdue COM 114 Test Out Questions and Correct
Answers
Characteristics of Effective Speaking
1) Goal-Directed
2) Audience-Centered
3) Ethical
=====GAE
Cognitive Restructuring
A method to help reduce communication anxiety by replacing irrational thoughts
======Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones, convincing yourself of the latter
Communication Apprehension
the fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another
person
===== someone with a stutter is nervous meeting their new boss, causing more than usual
stuttering
Skills Training
A way to deal with communication apprehension by improving communcation skills, such as
taking a communications course
Visualization
,Another method to deal with communciation apprehension that involves one picturing
himself being successful
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually
increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
Taking bits and pieces of information from various sources and claiming them as your own or
without the use of proper citations
Excessive Collaboration
Completing or writing an assignment or body of work with the help of another person and
without establishing proper credit to that person
===== your partner does no work for a project but takes all the credit with your teacher
Fabrication
The act of making up (or even leaving things out) in order to benefit your argument
=====cherrypicking evidence
Incremental Plagiarism
-Failing to give credit for small bits of a presentation.
-Typically from misusing quotations or incorrect paraphrasing
Misrepresentation
The act of using an entire body of work and claiming it as your own
Plagiarism
, Claiming someone else's ideas or words as your own, another word for misrepresentation
Presentational Speaking
-Conveying information through speech to a public audience
-less formal
-reaches a smaller amount of people
-more interactive.
Self-Plagiarism
Using an idea or piece of evidence from one of your own previously developed texts in a new
body of work without properly citing or stating that it is not new
Audience Analysis
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience
====== "know your audience, read the room"
Open-Ended Questions
Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want
Closed-Ended Questions
Questions that can be answered in short or single word responses (Yes or No)
Direct Question
A question that asks for an overt response from listeners
Direct Methods
Asking audience members directly for their opinion by questionnaires, interviews, and so on
Answers
Characteristics of Effective Speaking
1) Goal-Directed
2) Audience-Centered
3) Ethical
=====GAE
Cognitive Restructuring
A method to help reduce communication anxiety by replacing irrational thoughts
======Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones, convincing yourself of the latter
Communication Apprehension
the fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another
person
===== someone with a stutter is nervous meeting their new boss, causing more than usual
stuttering
Skills Training
A way to deal with communication apprehension by improving communcation skills, such as
taking a communications course
Visualization
,Another method to deal with communciation apprehension that involves one picturing
himself being successful
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually
increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism
Taking bits and pieces of information from various sources and claiming them as your own or
without the use of proper citations
Excessive Collaboration
Completing or writing an assignment or body of work with the help of another person and
without establishing proper credit to that person
===== your partner does no work for a project but takes all the credit with your teacher
Fabrication
The act of making up (or even leaving things out) in order to benefit your argument
=====cherrypicking evidence
Incremental Plagiarism
-Failing to give credit for small bits of a presentation.
-Typically from misusing quotations or incorrect paraphrasing
Misrepresentation
The act of using an entire body of work and claiming it as your own
Plagiarism
, Claiming someone else's ideas or words as your own, another word for misrepresentation
Presentational Speaking
-Conveying information through speech to a public audience
-less formal
-reaches a smaller amount of people
-more interactive.
Self-Plagiarism
Using an idea or piece of evidence from one of your own previously developed texts in a new
body of work without properly citing or stating that it is not new
Audience Analysis
Learning about the diverse characteristics of the people who make up the audience
====== "know your audience, read the room"
Open-Ended Questions
Questions that allow respondents to answer however they want
Closed-Ended Questions
Questions that can be answered in short or single word responses (Yes or No)
Direct Question
A question that asks for an overt response from listeners
Direct Methods
Asking audience members directly for their opinion by questionnaires, interviews, and so on
