Exam 2: Speaking With Confidence

Thomas Mira, author of Speak Smart, suggests that practice sessions should be used to practice only five to ten minutes at a time.

Speakers should not use relaxation techniques immediately before their presentations.

When the National Speakers Association asked its 4,000 professional members to identify their top tips for a successful speech, which method came in first?

speaker's presentation anxiety is usually invisible to the audience.

Speaking anxiety always impairs your ability to make effective presentations.

______is a therapy involving both relaxation and imagining a series of anxiety-provoking situations.

________is a therapy aimed at changing a speaker’s unrealistic beliefs about making presentations.

Knowing that you will definitely make an embarrassing mistake creates anxiety.

Although presentation anxiety is a natural and reasonable apprehension, it is life’s biggest fear.

The desensitization hierarchy asks you to imagine how you feel in a series of increasingly fear-provoking situations.

Reading about speaking anxiety can generally make a person more nervous about speaking.

An especially effective relaxation technique for reducing performance anxiety is

For many speakers, mastering the presentation preparation process helps boost their confidenc when speaking in front of an audience.

Visualization is closely related to which of the following anxiety- reducing methods?

What percentage of the U.S. population experiences anxiety when faced with making a presentation?

Angelica is nervous about her upcoming presentation to a group of senior managers about the status of a product development project in her department. She doesn’t feel confident about her presentation skills. She worries that the managers will find her boring. Angelica’s primary source of presentation anxiety is fear of

Children who grow up being told that they are losers and not very good at anything may experience speaking anxiety based on the fear of

Carlos is about to make an important presentation. He admits he is very nervous and hopes that he remembers to avoid saying “and uh” or “um” so often. Which of the following fears probably underlies his communication apprehension?

In order to overcome fear of the spotlight, the best strategy is to

Speakers can rarely anticipate or address unexpected problems when making a presentation.