Public Speaking Final Exam Practice

A group of people listening to the same message or speech.

• audience
• speaker
• ethics
• systematic desensitization

In public speaking, the one presenting a message to a relatively large audience, in a unique context.

• audience
• speaker
• systematic desensitization
• ethics

The branch of philosophy that deals with the rightness or wrongness of actions; the study of moral values.

• audience
• speaker
• systematic desensitization
• ethics

A theory and technique for dealing with a variety of fears (such as communication apprehension) in which you gradually desensitize yourself to behaviors you wish to eliminate.

• audience
• speaker
• systematic desensitization
• ethics

Communication in which the source is one person and the receiver is an audience of many persons.

• audience
• public speaking
• culture
• communication apprehension

The relatively specialized lifestyle of a group of people-consisting of values, beliefs, behavior- passed on from one generation to the next.

• audience
• public speaking
• culture
• communication apprehension

Fear or anxiety over communicating.

• audience
• public speaking
• culture
• communication apprehension

A process of putting together into some meaningful whole the listener’s understanding of the speaker’s total message-the verbal and the nonverbal, the content and the feelings.

• active listening
• backchannel cues
• bias
• criticism
• empathy

The feeling of another person’s feeling; feeling, or perceiving something, as another person does.

• active listening
• backchannel cues
• bias
• criticism
• empathy

Verbal and nonverbal signals that tell the speaker you’re listening.

• active listening
• backchannel cues
• bias
• criticism
• empathy