SPCM Midterm
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chels902 on October 6, 2010
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public speaking, speech communications
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SPCM 1100 Marinelli
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Culture | integrated systems of learned beliefs, values, attitudes & behaviors that a group accepts & passes along from older to newer members (exists at conscious & unconscious level) |
| Oral culture | culture with no writing & no technology for recording messages apart from face-to-face transactions |
| Responsibility | speakers' & listeners' mutual engagement with the ideas, which allows them to jointly forge meanings |
| Civility | self-control or moderation, contrasts with arrogance; civil speakers persuade, consult, & compromise rather than coerce & manipulate |
| Plagiarism | presenting the words, images, or ideas of others as if they were your own |
| Resistance | response to diversity in which you refuse to change & defend your own positions or attack others |
| Rightsabilities | highlights the tension between our right to free speech & our responsibility for our speech |
| Comprehensive listening | listening to learn, understand, or get information |
| Critical listening | listening that requires you to reflect & weigh the merits of messages before you accept them |
| Cultural allusions | references to historical, literary & religious sources that are culturally specific |
| Prejudice | preformed biases or judgments, whether negative or positive |
| Speech-thought differential | the difference between the rate you think (about 500 words per minutes) & the average speaking rate (about 150 words per minute) |
| Affective effects | influences on listeners' feelings |
| Behavioral effects | influences on audience reactions |
| Cognitive effects | influences on beliefs, understandings & other mental processes |
| General purpose | four general purposes are: to inform, to persuade, to entertain, or to commemorate |
| Specific purpose | the cognitive, affective, or behavioral responses a speaker desires |
| Thesis statement | a single sentence that names the subject & establishes its significance |
| Preview | short summary of the major points you'll develop in your speech |
| Audience analysis | identifying audience characteristics to communicate more effectively |
| Credibility | listeners' impressions of your character, intensions & abilities that make you more or less believable |
| Demographic analysis | identifying audiences by populations they represent, such as age or ethnicity |
| Listening speaker | dialogical speaker who hears audience interests & concerns before, during & after a speech |
| Psychological profile | assessment of an audience's beliefs, values & attitudes |
| Cause-effect pattern | presents reasons (causes) & implications (effects) of a topic |
| Chronological pattern | presents points in a sequential or time order |
| Problem-solution pattern | describes a problem & a possible solution to it |
| Process speech | describes a sequence of steps or stages that follow one another in a fairly predictable pattern |
| Pro-con arrangement | presents arguments in favor of & arguments against an issue |
| Organic pattern | alternative pattern that provides a clear speech structure in a less linear form |
| Spatial pattern | presents points by place or location |
| Spiral pattern | repetitive pattern with a series of points that increase in drama or intensity |
| Star pattern | presents relatively equally weighted speech points within a thematic circle that binds them together; order of points may vary |
| Topical arrangement | divides a subject into subtopics, each of which is part of the whole |
| Coordination | points arranged into various levels, with the points on a specific level having basically the same value or weight |
| Subordination | placement of supporting points under major points |
| Full-sentence outline | formal record of your major ideas & their relationship to one another in your speech |
| Speaking notes | key words & phrases you use during your speech & discard afterwards |
| Parallel points | making the points similar in construction |
| Discourse consistency | using a repetitive style such as alliteration of main points throughout the speech |
| Expository speaking | the "speech to teach" that explains an idea in detail |
| Information age | an era with vast amounts of available information |
| Information overload | feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of available data |
| Redundancy | repeating the same idea more than once, but developing it differently each time |
| Repetition | saying the same thing more than once |
| Public | open, wide ranging, diverse, common interests |
| Public speaking | engage ideas of common interest for a diverse group of people ethically & effectively |
| manuscript, memorized, extemporaneous, impromptu | Modes of delivery |
| written, conversational, performance | Skills of the public speaker |
| 90/10 rule | 90% of what you're doing is effective & the other 10% sets you back |
| unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, unconscious incompetence | Stages of competence |
| invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory | Canons of rhetoric |
| cause/effect, chronological, topical, spatial, familiar to unfamiliar/simple to complex | Types of arrangement |
| brainstorming, cluster, label, narrow/expand | Stages of preparation |
| testimony, statistics, definition | Informative strategies |
| analytical, performative/operational, negation, historical, etymology | Types of definition |
| the art of finding available means of persuasion in a given situation | Rhetoric |
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