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Ch14 Informative And Persuasive Presentations Full Test Bank

Chapter 14: Informative and Persuasive Presentations

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The use of logic or reasoning to impact an audience is called ______.

a. ethos

b. logos

c. pathos

d. mentos

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Deductive reasoning is associated with which proof?

a. Ethos

b. Pathos

c. Logos

d. Ethnos

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Artistic proofs were laid out 2,000 years ago by ______.

a. Aristotle

b. Pericles

c. Cicero

d. Caesar

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. An enthymeme is a form of ______.

a. claim of value

b. process speech

c. syllogism

d. anchor position

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which of the following includes those positions that the audience deems unacceptable?

a. Latitude of acceptance

b. Latitude of noncommitment

c. Latitude of rejection

d. Anchor position

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Which of the following includes the range of positions that the audience sees as acceptable?

a. Latitude of acceptance

b. Latitude of noncommitment

c. Latitude of rejection

d. Anchor position

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. According to social judgment theory, ______ represents the preferred or most acceptable position.

a. latitude of acceptance

b. latitude of noncommitment

c. latitude of rejection

d. anchor position

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Words that represent intangible objects that cannot be experienced through senses and include ideas, beliefs, and feelings are said to be ______.

a. based

b. cemented

c. concrete

d. abstract

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Words that represent tangible objects that can be experienced through sensory channels (touch, taste, smell, hearing, seeing) and include real people, objects, actions, and locations are said to be ______.

a. based

b. cemented

c. concrete

d. abstract

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Speaker credibility to impact an audience is the most closely associated with which proof?

a. Ethos

b. Pathos

c. Logos

d. None of these

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Alexandra is going to give a presentation on the procedure for diabetic patients to check their blood glucose levels but will not be having the audience check theirs. This is what type of presentation?

a. Expository presentation

b. Process demonstration

c. How-to demonstration

d. Presentation to actuate

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Process and How-To Demonstrations

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. Which of the following is NOT a strategy for how-to demonstrations?

a. Include all steps.

b. Assume prior knowledge.

c. Provide a clear view.

d. Control pace.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process and How-To Demonstrations

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Alaina is going to give a presentation on the proper procedure for applying a tourniquet to someone who has been injured, and audience members will apply a tourniquet briefly to the person sitting next to them. This is what type of presentation?

a. Expository presentation

b. Process demonstration

c. How-to demonstration

d. Presentation to convince

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Process and How-To Demonstrations

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Skylar is giving a presentation to encourage classmates to write letters to their congressional representatives to voice their opinions on a new legislative bill that is going to be voted on in a few weeks. This is what type of speech?

a. Presentation to actuate

b. Presentation to convince

c. How-to demonstration

d. Expository presentation

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Presenting to Actuate

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Biff wants the members of the administration in the audience to change their minds about the +/- grade system that was implemented at the university last semester. Biff will be giving which type of presentation?

a. Presentation to actuate

b. How-to demonstration

c. Presentation to convince

d. Expository presentation

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Presenting to Convince

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Anna Leigh wants to present a highly detailed analysis of her hometown, Portland, Oregon. Which of the following is the most appropriate type of presentation for her to deliver?

a. Presentation to actuate

b. How-to demonstration

c. Presentation to convince

d. Expository presentation

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. In his presentation, Jack explains, in detail, the capabilities of the iPhone 7. Most likely, Jack’s presentation is a(n)______.

a. persuasive presentation

b. expository presentation

c. process demonstration

d. how-to demonstration

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. In his presentation, Ruben is going to use a number of academic sources to support his claim that Christopher Columbus did not actually land on the mainland of what is currently the United States. This type of claim is one of ______.

a. value

b. policy

c. conjecture

d. fact

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Billie is claiming that electronic cigarettes are a nuisance and should be banned in all public places. Billie’s claim is one of ______.

a. fact

b. value

c. policy

d. conjecture

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Value

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. “Drinking Yumm-o Cola will make you healthier” is a claim of ______.

a. fact

b. value

c. policy

d. conjecture

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. “The United States Postal Service should be taken over by a private company as soon as possible” is a claim of ______.

a. policy

b. value

c. conjecture

d. fact

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Which of the following is not one of the four primary types of persuasive claims that can be developed through a presentation to convince?

a. Opinion

b. Value

c. Conjecture

d. Fact

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Presenting to Convince

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. ______ explains how people may respond to a range of positions surrounding a particular topic or issue.

a. Muted group theory

b. Communication accommodation theory

c. Postmodernism

d. Social judgment theory

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. ______ maintains that if someone advocates a position within your latitude of rejection you will view it as farther from your anchor position than it actually is.

a. Assimilation effect

b. Contrast effect

c. Audience involvement

d. Explicit bias

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. A/an ______ occurs when relationships are used to justify certain behaviors and to convince others of their appropriateness.

a. appeal to relationships

b. post hoc ergo propter hoc

c. cum hoc ergo propter hoc

d. hasty generalization

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. A/an ______ argues that something is caused by whatever happens before it.

a. appeal to relationships

b. post hoc ergo propter hoc

c. cum hoc ergo propter hoc

d. hasty generalization

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. A/an ______ argues that if one thing happens at the same time as another, it was caused by the thing with which it coincides.

a. appeal to relationships

b. post hoc ergo propter hoc

c. cum hoc ergo propter hoc

d. hasty generalization

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. A/an ______ occurs when a conclusion is based on a single occurrence or insufficient data or sample size.

a. appeal to relationships

b. post hoc ergo propter hoc

c. cum hoc ergo propter hoc

d. hasty generalization

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. A ______ is the use of another issue to divert attention away from the real issue.

a. division fallacy

b. composition fallacy

c. false alternative

d. red herring

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. A ______ occurs when only two options are provided, one of which is generally presented as the poor choice or one that should be avoided.

a. division fallacy

b. composition fallacy

c. false alternative

d. red herring

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. A ______ argues that the parts are the same as the whole.

a. division fallacy

b. composition fallacy

c. false alternative

d. red herring

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. A ______ argues the whole is the same as its parts.

a. division fallacy

b. composition fallacy

c. false alternative

d. red herring

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. A presentation of definition is a type of persuasive presentation.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. A claim of conjecture contends what will be true or false in the future.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. A presentation that provides the audience with a detailed or in-depth review or analysis of an object, a creation, a place, a person, a concept, or an event is an exploratory presentation.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The assimilation effect maintains that if someone advocates a position within your latitude of acceptance you will view it as closer to your anchor position than it is.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The contrast effect maintains that if someone advocates a position within your latitude of rejection you will view it as farther from your anchor position than it really is.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Concrete words represent intangible objects that cannot be experienced through senses and include ideas, beliefs, and feelings.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Expository presentations may connect ideas or viewpoints surrounding a particular topic, distinguish or classify components of a topic, compare and contrast elements of a topic, or initiate new approaches or integrate existing approaches to a topic.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Pathos involves the use of speaker credibility to impact an audience.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Ethos involves the use of speaker credibility to impact an audience.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Logos is an artistic proof involving the use of emotional appeals to impact an audience.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Presentations to actuate are delivered in an attempt to change audience behavior.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Presenting to Actuate

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. A presentation to actuate is an example of an informative presentation.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Presenting to Actuate

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Descriptive language is that which provides the audience with a clearer picture of what you are discussing by describing it in more detail.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. An enthymeme is a claim of policy.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. If you know your audience’s preexisting beliefs conflict with your topic, then you shouldn’t bother giving your presentation.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Identify how a speech to convince might influence preexisting beliefs and attitudes of an audience.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Audience Approaches to Presentations to Convince

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. If the audience members do not incorporate the information that you provide into their lives, they will likely forget the material provided during your presentation.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Two basic types of persuasive speeches exist: presentations to convince and those intended to actuate.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Presenting to Actuate

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. When developing a claim of value, you must let the audience know what criteria you used to determine the value you support.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Value

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. A claim of conjecture maintains that something is true or false at the present time or was true or false in the past.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. A claim of fact contends what will be true or false in the future.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. As audience members’ involvement with an issue decreases, so does the size of their latitude of rejection.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Audiences highly involved with an issue will have large latitudes of acceptance and noncommitment because people will spend more time thinking about and evaluating the concerns with an issue if they view it as important and meaningful.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Assimilation and contrast effects are more likely to occur when an actual position is not clear and can thus be minimized by making your position explicit.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. Explain the concept of ethos.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Name and explain the three parts of a syllogism.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Define and explain a claim of policy.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Claims of Policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What is the major difference between a process and a how-to demonstration?

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Process and How-To Demonstrations

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What is the purpose of an expository presentation? Give an example to illustrate your point.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. How do inductive and deductive reasoning differ?

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. After your presentation to actuate, your audience has changed their beliefs. Have you met your goal? Explain why or why not.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Presenting to Actuate

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. A ______ is an argument that appears legitimate but is actually based on faulty reasoning or insufficient evidence.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. One form of a fallacious argument is ______, which is when the source of a message, rather than the message itself, is attacked.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. One form of a fallacious argument is ______, which is when a person’s authority or credibility in one area is used to support another area.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. One form of a fallacious argument is ______, which involves claims that something is good or beneficial because everyone else agrees with this evaluation.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The ______ explains how people may respond to a range of positions surrounding a particular topic or issue.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The ______ includes the range of positions that the audience sees as acceptable.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The ______ represents the preferred or most acceptable position.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The ______ includes those positions that the audience sees as unacceptable.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The ______ includes positions that the audience neither wholly accepts nor wholly rejects.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The ______ maintains that if someone advocates a position within your latitude of acceptance, you will view it as closer to your anchor position than it really is.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The ______ maintains that if someone advocates a position within your latitude of rejection, you will view it as farther from your anchor position than it really is.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe how the social judgment theory can influence persuasive attempts.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Variables Influencing Social Judgment

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. ______ involves the use of logic or reasoning to influence an audience.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. ______ involves appealing to emotions such as excitement, sadness, happiness, guilt, and anger.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. ______ involves the use of speaker credibility to influence an audience.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. ______ relies on the ambiguousness of language to make an argument.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Choose a topic. Explain how you would use the artistic proof pathos to persuade the audience in favor of your topic.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Using the same topic that you chose for Essay Question 1, explain how you would use the artistic proof logos to persuade your audience in favor of your topic.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Explain at least three of the strategies for successful informative presentations. Provide an example for each strategy.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Strategies for Successful Informative Presentations

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Explain the three techniques that can help a speaker deliver an effective how-to demonstration. Provide an example for each technique.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Process and How-To Demonstrations

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss three techniques to help ensure effective expository and how-to demonstrations.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Distinguish the types of informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Expository Presentations

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Discuss the importance of building a relationship with your audience and how you can execute this.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Discuss the importance of narrowing the focus for your topic and how you can execute this.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Discuss the importance of adjusting the complexity of your presentation and how you can execute this.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Discuss the importance of using clear organization and how you can execute this.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Discuss the importance of stressing the significance and relational influence and how you can execute this.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. What are concrete words? Provide some examples.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Identify strategies for achieving successful informative presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Develop Relationships Through Language

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Explain the difference between claims of fact and claims of conjecture.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Distinguish the types of persuasive presentations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Claims of Fact and Claims of Conjecture

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What is a syllogism? Explain its premises.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Explain the artistic proofs.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Artistic Proofs

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Explain red herring and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Explain false alternatives and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Explain composition fallacy and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Explain division fallacy and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Explain equivocation and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Explain appeal to relationships and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Explain post hoc ergo propter hoc and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Explain cum hoc ergo propter hoc and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Explain hasty generalization and provide an example.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Identify how a speech to actuate might influence audience behavior.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Persuasive Speaking and Fallacious Arguments

Difficulty Level: Medium

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