Exam 1: Building Confidence and Your First Speech

Highly anxious speakers tend to be ______.

How can speech anxiety be transformative? Give examples.

During the speech, Breanne takes time to make eye contact with various audience members. Which strategy for using her anxiety to perform more effectively is Breanne employing?

Why is it important to replicate the conditions of the speech as much as you can when you're practicing?

List and discuss three elements of the communication process and how they are pertinent to your speechmaking opportunities.

The night before the speech, trying to stand tall, lean forward, and open your arms to the audience, is an example of ______.

Once you have become more capable of assessing your speeches, what can you use for a more comprehensive assessment?

List and discuss the three areas in which being a skilled public speaker could benefit you.

Sally is very nervous about presenting her speech in class. While waiting to present, she thinks to herself "Stop!" and then repeats "calm" in her head. Sally is using ______.

Josh succeeds to strike a powerful pose during the speech and thus increase the effectiveness of the speech. Josh is addressing the ______ effects of speech anxiety.

Which of the following is a benefit of public speaking for your personal life?

Define and describe ethnocentrism. What impact can that have on the speaker and audience?

By mastering the ability to communicate your ideas in public, you harness the power of ______.

By mastering the ability to communicate your ideas in public, you harness the power of interaction.

Which of the following is an area of your life benefitting from speechmaking?

If you take your nerves about public speaking and use them to your advantage, you are harnessing positive energy.

Which of the following refers to our internal communication that can often derail our attempts to control our anxiety?

Each of the following is step you should take once you have selected a speech topic, except ______.

What are supporting materials? Give examples of some, and explain supporting materials are important.

Sam was in an accident as a child and received a blood transfusion, which influences his persuasive speech on blood donation. Sam's topic was influenced by his ______.