Friday, December 7, 2012

Crystal and Elizabeth Questions


1. What does "extemporaneous delivery" mean?
a. speaking over Skype
b. speaking with a manuscript
c. speaking without notes
d. speaking with the use of minimal notes* 

2. What is a "non-fluency"?
a. a pause in vocal flow
b. a phrase like "um" or "uh"*
c. bodily movements
d. flatulence

Lauren, Kelly, and Melissa Questions


1. According to Rollie and Duck's model of the breakdown process which of these is NOT a step?
          a. Breakdown
          b. Resurrection Process
          c. Strategic Communication*
          d. Dyadic processes
          e. Social processes

2. This word deals with the ways people prepare themselves for new relationships after ending an old one:
          a. Intrasychic process
          b. Dyadic process
          c. Social process
          d. Resurrection process*
          e. Grave dressing process

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Amanda E. and Jordan S. Questions

1. What are the types of testimony?
A. Personal testimony
B. Religious testimony
C. Expert testimony
D. Lay testimony
*E. A, C, & D

2. What type of audience do you have when the members personally choose to be there?
A. Captive audience
B. Valued audience
*C. Voluntary audience
D. Demographic audience
E. Public audience

Jordan and Cooper Questions


1) The process of moving from dates to partners, lovers to enemies, or spouses to divorcées are all examples of:
a) signaling change
b)retrospective units
*c)crossing boundaries*
d)introspective units 
e)social relationships

2) what involves essentially interchangeable people?
a)Singularity relationships
b)provisional relationships
*c)social relationships*
d)personal relationships
e)informative relationships

Amanda B. and Angie Questions

1- what process deals with the ways people prepare themselves for new relationships after ending an old one?
A. Social relationships
*B. resurrection process
C. Reconciliation process
D. Provisions of relationships
E. problem resolving

2- What involves confronting the partner and openly discussing a problem with the relationship?
A. Resurrection process
B. social relationship
C. Provisions of relationship
*D. Dyadic process
E. mediation

Jessica, Kayli, and Amanda F. Questions


1.       Phrases or statements that serve to connect the major parts or sections of the speech are…?
a.       Sections
b.      Transitions*
c.       Connections
d.      Speech Points
e.      Speech flow statements

2.       Which organizational pattern is used to organize the body of the speech so that the main points are arranged according to cause and effect?
a.       Spatial Pattern
b.      Chronological Pattern
c.       Topical Pattern
d.      Problem-Solution Pattern
e.      Causal Pattern*

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Amanda E., Kelly and Crystal's Questions


1. Which type of distraction results from the physical location where listening takes place?
a. Medium
b. Source
c. Environmental*
d. Representational
e. Relational

2. What type of listening occurs when people focus more on the message and self-presentation than on the message of the other person involved in the interaction?
a. Content listening
b. Egocentric listening*
c. Selective listening
d. Representational listening
e. Critical listening

3. What occurs when you daydream or think about things after the message being presented?
a. Wandering thoughts*
b. Superior thoughts
c. Inferior thoughts
d. Factual diversion
e. Semantic diversion

4. What becomes an obstacle to listening when a person finds a message so complex or confusing that he or she stops listening?
a. Critical listening
b. Past experience with the source
c. Distractions
d. Wandering thoughts
e. Message complexity*

Hypothetical Questions:
5. Melody was paying attention to Kevin's conversation and was putting herself in his position. Which step on the listening ladder is Melody stuck on?
a. Attending
b. Understanding*
c. Remembering
d. Evaluating
e. Responding

6. Sam's friend, John, confirmed the truth of his statements during his presentation with other sources. What is this an example of?
a. Argument against the source
b. Status of the source
c. Consistency
d. Varifiability*
e. None of the above

7. Ruby bought a new car that broke down the next week. What is this an example of?
a. Hasty generalization*
b. Bandwagon appeal
c. Division fallacy
d. Red herring
e. False alternatives