Fortunately, stage fright only affects inexperienced speakers.

Most nervousness public speakers feel internally is not visible to the audience.

The channel is the room in which the speech takes place.

A speaker's frame of reference and a listener's frame of reference will always be exactly the same.

Interference is anything that impedes the communication of a message.

Corax of Syracuse developed the Three Proofs of Rhetoric.

Ethos is basing an argument on logic.

Ethnocentrism is when speakers seek to understand the values, beliefs, and customs of audiences from different cultures.

Ethnocentrism is part of every culture.

Although language changes from culture to culture, the meaning of nonverbal signals is consistent across cultures.

Interference can come from either inside or outside your audience.

When public speaking is referred to as a form of empowerment, it means that public speaking is -

When you experience stage fright, your body is producing extra ________________, a hormone that is released into the bloodstream in response to a physical or mental stress.

Rather than trying to eliminate every trace of stage fright, you should aim at transforming it into ____________.

As you listen to a speech about community crime, you relate the speaker's ideas to your own knowledge, goals, and experience. You are filtering the speech through your own _____________________.

Which of the following aspects of public speaking is least likely to help strengthen your skills as a critical thinker?

As you present your speech, you notice that many of your listeners have interested looks on their faces and are nodding their heads in agreement with your ideas. These reactions by your listeners are called ______________.

Someone coughing in the audience or walking in late during a presentation are examples of what element of the speech communication process?

Ethos is a rhetorical device that focuses on ______________.

Many of the skills used in public speaking are the same as those used in everyday conversation. These skills include ___________________.

Heather was in the midst of an excellent speech on community history when she made a minor mistake giving the wrong date for the opening of city hall. She suddenly stopped speaking and said, "Oh, I messed up." She then finished her speech, but all she could think about afterward was her mistake. What is the major piece of advice that Heather needs to be reminded of?

As Bonita approaches the podium, loud voices in the hallway filled the room. Before beginning her speech, she asked someone in the back of the room to close the door. In this case, Bonita was dealing with ________________.

In the midst of a speech about volcanos, a speaker notices quizzical expressions on the faces of her listeners. In response, she says, "Let me explain that point again to make sure it's clear." When this happens, the speaker is

Mary listened to the president speak on the radio at the same time that Jamal was part of the audience in the arena where the president was speaking. Later, Mary said she thought the president's words stated clearly that he opposed an increase in taxes. But Jamal said that the way the president avoided looking at the audience when he talked about taxes made it seem that the president actually supported increasing taxes. The difference in the message Mary and Jamal received most likely resulted from the fact that ______________________.

As Christopher delivered his speech, he noticed some members of the audience looked confused as he explained one of his main points. As a result, he slowed down and explained the point again. In this case, Christopher was _______________________.

Renee is a U.S. student who was asked to speak at an end-of-the-year banquet sponsored by the International Student Association. When Renee suggested in her speech that all students should behave like people in the United States, she was reflecting ___________________.

Sridhar is an exchange student from India, and he has decided to give his informative speech on Indian marriage customs. Because he will be getting married back home the next summer, he is very excited about the topic. He is concerned, however, that his classmates, all of whom are Americans, may think that he is saying that marriage traditions in India are better than those in the United States. Sridhar's concern indicates that he is sensitive to the problem of _____________________.

When you employ the power of visualization as a method of controlling stage fright, you should ________________.