You are a government official speaking to an audience of senior citizens about changes in their government-sponsored health care benefits. Which of the following would be a good way to establish your credibility with that audience?
1 - Summarize what you know about the audience's health care concerns and provide information that addresses those concerns.
2 - Emphasize how the changes will not increase their out-of-pocket expenses.
3 - Describe what your job is and how you were trained to do it.
4 - Begin your speech with a story about your grandmother.
1 - Summarize what you know about the audience's health care concerns and provide information that addresses those concerns.
After showing how the speech topic applies to the psychological needs of the audience members, the speaker must then...
1 - Present an action plan.
2 - Solve the issue.
3
- Provide a visual.
4 - Get the audience's attention.
2 - Solve the issue.
A woman gives a press conference because her daughter has been kidnapped. The woman cries and begs for her daughter to be returned. This exemplifies which type of appeal?
1 - Logical
2 - Logos
3 - Pathos
4 - Evidential
3 - Pathos
According to Maslow, which of the following must be met on the Hierarchy of Needs before satisfying self-esteem, recognition, and achievement?
1 - Safety and security needs
2 - Self-actualization needs
3 - Physiology needs
4 - Love and friendship needs
4 - Love and friendship needs
The dog is panting and the cat is sleeping, therefore the cat sleeps because the dog pants. This is an example of a logical fallacy known as...
1 - Converse fallacy of accidental or hasty generalization.
2 - Straw man.
3 - Two events co-occurring is not causation.
4 - A formal fallacy.
3 - Two events co-occurring is not causation.
Which of the following must a public speaker do to ensure that the evidence in his or her speech withstands audience scrutiny?
1 - The speaker must convince the audience of something that he or she believes to be true.
2 - The speaker must allow others to criticize his or her viewpoints.
3 - The speaker must consider the viability of opposing viewpoints before rejecting them.
4 - All of these answers.
4 - All of these answers.
Who is an example of a political figure who used emotional manipulation?
1 - Adolf Hitler
2 - Military personnel
3 - Thomas Jefferson
4 -
Martin Luther King Jr.
1 - Adolf Hitler
Emotional appeals are effective as a rhetorical device but considered a logical fallacy because...
1 - They are associated with pathos, ethos, and logos.
2 - They often appeal to the prejudices of listeners rather than offer logical assessments.
3 - They are used to develop the foundation of an appeal to fact-based arguments.
4 - None of these answers
2 - They often appeal to the prejudices of listeners rather than offer logical assessments.
When a speaker suggests to audience members that they do not care enough, are too selfish, or have it easy, the speaker is employing which of the following manipulative techniques?
1 - Vilifying the victim
2 - Guilt tripping
3 - Shaming
4 - Playing the victim
2 - Guilt tripping
When crafting a speech, speakers must consider which of the following to ensure their evidence is accurate?
1 - Ensure web sources are partial and biased.
2 - Ensure a comprehensive understanding about the knowledge base of the audience.
3 - Ensure the evidence is relevant to the argument.
4 - Ensure that facts, statistics, and personal testimony come from credible sources.
4 - Ensure that facts, statistics, and personal testimony come from credible sources.
The following appeal is allowed in a court of law.
1 - Eye witness appeal
2 - Emotional appeal
3 - Credible appeal
4 - Evidential appeal
4 - Evidential appeal
What is the primary role of evidence in persuasive speaking?
1 - Evidence builds audience support.
2 -
Evidence builds credibility.
3 - Evidence appeals to emotion and logic.
4 - Evidence provides context.
2 - Evidence builds credibility.
Ethos is a type of appeal to an audience based on...
1 - The speaker's personal credibility.
2 - The audience's emotional involvement in the argument.
3 - Logic and reason.
4 - The audience's understanding of a universal morality.
1 - The speaker's personal credibility.
According to the text, there is inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning. What is the third type of reasoning the text addresses?
1 - Associative Reasoning
2 - Informative Reasoning
3 - Productive Reasoning
4 - Selective Reasoning
1 - Associative Reasoning
Which of the following is NOT one of the 16 basic motivators the text identified?
1 - Family: the need to raise children
2 - Tranquility: the need to be safe
3 - Anger: the need to get upset
4 - Order: the need to be organized
3 - Anger: the need to get upset