Public Speaking Quiz 3_Speech Anxiety

Which of the following is NOT speech anxiety?

• stage fright when giving a speech

• nervous to give a speech

• fear of giving a speech

• excitement when giving a speech

Which of the following is UNRELATED to social anxiety disorder?

• Glossophobia

• Social Phobia

• fear, anxiety, and avoidance that interferes with your daily routine, work, school, or other activities

• characterized by intense and persistent feelings of glee, joy, and success at the thought of public communication

What is a performance-based anxiety that makes people feel anxious to give public speeches?

• Social Phobia

• Glossophobia

Select all of the following that is true about lizard-brain.

• It works with the limbic system to boost all of your available systems to give you maximum energy.

• It is the brain stem and the cerebellum.

• It handles automatic, reflexive behavior, such as breathing.

• It is the youngest part of the brain.

Which of the following is not a way to manage communication apprehension?

• Prepare and practice. Don't procrastinate.

• Stay still. Avoid exercise.

• Use your body and brain to release, redirect, relabel, rename, and reframe the nervous energy.

• Breathe!

What does desensitization mean?

• fight or flight response

• taking a deep breath to allow your thinking brain time to take more control of the situation

• a management practice for performance endurance that many athletes utilize to perform at their peak levels

• a psychological technique used where exposure to small amounts of your fear/anxiety in a controlled situation helps your reduce your stress response

How can you relabel your feelings of stress?

• Relabeling your apprehension as excitement

• labeling your apprehension as stress

• acknowledging that your have apprehension

• acknowledging the cause of your body's apprehension

How can renaming your physical response help you?

• helps you visualize your success

• helps your prepare for the content of your speech

• helps you direct that positivity towards your presentation

• helps you by encouraging you to seek assistance for your apprehension

How does redirecting your energy help you?

• It teaches your how to relabel your responses.

• It allows you to focus your energy into your audience connection and message and away from your reactive state of apprehension.

• It teaches your how to rename your responses.

• It allows you to use your apprehension during your presentation.

Select all of the following that are examples of visualization from the textbook.

• Tennis players visualizing every motion of a perfect serve

• Picturing your movements and gestures, and seeing yourself giving a great speech

• Imagining your classmates laughing at your during your speech

• Musicians seeing themselves perfectly perform every note