Speech Week 3 Vocabulary

The surge in your anxiety level that you feel as you begin your speech.

• Confrontation Reaction

• Performance Orientation

• Public Speaking Apprehension

• Audience Adaptation

A type of communication anxiety; the level of fear a person experiences when anticipating or actually speaking to an audience.

• Public Speaking Apprehension

• Visualization

• Communication Orientation Motivation

• Systematic Desensitization

A method that reduces apprehension by gradually having people visualize increasingly more frightening events.

• Speech Goal

• Speech Plan

• Systematic Desensitization

• Confrontation Reaction

Techniques designed to reduce anxiety by helping the speaker adopt a 'communication' rather than a 'performance' orientation toward the speech.

• Audience Adaptation

• Speech Goal

• Communication orientation motivation

• Narrative/Personal Experience Speech

A method that reduces apprehension by helping speakers develop a mental picture of themselves giving a masterful speech.

• Visualization

• Confrontation Reaction

• Public Speaking Apprehension

• Speech Plan

A statement of what you want your listeners to know, believe, or do.

• Speech Goal

• Speech Plan

• Audience Adaptation

• Confrontation Reaction

The process of tailoring your speech's information to the needs, interests, and expectation of your listeners.

• Narrative/Personal Experience Speech

• Audience Adaptation

• Performance Orientation

• Visualization

A strategy for achieving your goal.

• Speech Goal

• Public Speaking Apprehension

• Speech Plan

• Systematic Desensitization

A presentation in which you recount an experience you have had and the significance you attach to that experience.

• Public Speaking Apprehension

• Speech Plan

• Performance Orientation

• Narrative/Personal Experience Speech

Viewing public speaking as a situation demanding special delivery techniques to impress an audience aesthetically or viewing audience judges who will not forgive even our minor mistakes

• Performance Orientation

• Confrontation Reaction

• Systematic Desensitization

• Public Speaking Apprehension