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Test Bank
Chapter 15: Speak to Inform
Multiple Choice
1. Categories in which informative speech is divided include which of the following?
a. speeches about policy and law
b. speeches about donations
c. speeches about processes and procedures
d. speeches about causes and effects
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Which of the following is an informative speaking category?
a. speeches about the need to change law
b. speeches about processes and procedures
c. speeches about decisions to be made
d. speeches about promoting recycling
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. A speech on the Great Wall of China would most likely be a speech about a/an ______.
a. object
b. idea
c. process
d. event
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Speeches about objects lend themselves to which of the following?
a. value formats
b. topical formats
c. cause and effect formats
d. problem-solution formats
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A ______ format allows you to divide your subject into groups or major categories.
a. topical
b. spatial
c. cause and effect
d. chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. A ______ or physical framework enables you to discuss one major component of the object at a time.
a. topical
b. spatial
c. cause and effect
d. chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. What kinds of ideas make the best topics for concept speeches?
a. particular ideas
b. abstract ideas
c. specific ideas
d. advanced ideas
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. When we talk about ideas, audience members may have ______ interpretations of the concepts or words we use.
a. similar
b. different
c. neutral
d. simplified
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. A speech in which you enumerated and discussed, in turn, key aspects of the idea would be following a ______ order.
a. topical
b. spatial
c. cause and effect
d. chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Which of the following is an organizational pattern that would lend itself well to a speech on an event or a person?
a. problem-Solution
b. spatial
c. cause and effect
d. chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2. Speeches About Events and People
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. A speech about an event focuses on which of the following?
a. something that happens regularly
b. something that could never happen
c. something that could happen
d. something that never happened
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Speeches about people include which of the following?
a. information about a statue of a famous individual
b. information about someone you know personally
c. information about an animal
d. information about a cartoon character
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2b. Speaking of People
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. If your speech was to explain the history of an event, you would probably choose to use a ______ sequence.
a. topical
b. spatial
c. cause and effect
d. chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2c. Frameworks for Speaking of Events and People
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. “To inform my audience about how nature’s most violent windstorm, the tornado, develops” would most likely be a topic when speaking about a/an ______.
a. object
b. process or procedure
c. event
d. idea
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3. Speeches About Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. ______ order works well for speaking of processes and procedures because it naturally reflects the sequence, approach, or series of steps used from start to finish in making or doing something.
a. Topical
b. Spatial
c. Cause and effect
d. Chronological
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. When delivering a speech that focuses on a process or procedure, you will probably find it most useful to arrange your ideas in either ______ or ______ order.
a. topical; spatial
b. spatial; chronological
c. cause and effect; topical
d. chronological; topical
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Which of the following is a way to make your speech as clear and easy to follow as possible?
a. Organize your speech’s content so it takes minimal effort for your audience members to identify and process its central idea and main points.
b. Vaguely suggest what the audience should understand after listening to your speech.
c. Include statistics in one of the main points.
d. Be vague so that your audience really has to think.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Hard
18. Which of the following is a reason for your receivers to question your honesty and integrity?
a. They disagree with your ideas.
b. Your message contains inaccurate figures.
c. Your facts are based on rumor or hearsay.
d. b & c.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. ______ refers to special words or technical terms used and understood primarily by those who share a profession or trade.
a. Evidence
b. Jargon
c. Slang
d. Lingo
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. Which of the following is a way to ensure you neither give the audience too little nor too much information?
a. Keep a quick pace.
b. Don’t take knowledge for granted.
c. Don’t repeat.
d. Assume knowledge.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Rephrasing an idea in different words to more fully explain it if referred to as ______.
a. repetition
b. restatement
c. duplication
d. explanation
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Conveying the right amount of information can be done through which of the following?
a. pacing yourself during the speech
b. racing through the speech
c. using jargon to elevate language
d. avoiding repetition
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Which of the following are ways that you can show your audience that your speech will benefit them?
a. You will add to their knowledge.
b. You will satisfy their curiosity.
c. You will show them be distracted from sad thoughts.
d. a & b
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Unless you convince audience members that your presentation has ______, the information you offer will fall on deaf ears.
a. humor
b. relevance
c. excitement
d. consequences
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Most subjects become interesting if ______ the audience.
a. adapted to
b. entertaining for
c. humorous for
d. denied by
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. All of the following are ways in which you can be memorable EXCEPT ______.
a. let the audience know what you think is important for them to retain
b. use solely verbal means of communication
c. use repetition, pauses, vocal emphasis, and gestures to reinforce content
d. build in audience participation
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4d. Be Memorable
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must convey to your listeners ______.
a. the enthusiasm you have for your subject
b. that the speech is coming to an end
c. that they can ask you questions
d. that there is more to explore on the topic
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4d. Be Memorable
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Remember, people are most interested in ______.
a. ideas
b. events
c. other people
d. nature
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4d. Be Memorable
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. When you speak ______, you enhance your message with sufficient specificity and detail for audience members.
a. abstractly
b. concretely
c. carefully
d. minimally
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. You can create information ______ to motivate your audience to learn a new body of content.
a. overload
b. process
c. hunger
d. specificity
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Hard
31. Clarity and ______ go hand in hand.
a. accuracy
b. originality
c. performance
d. action
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
Fill-in-the-Blank
1. A ______ format is most appropriate if you are going to stress how a design or phenomenon evolved over time.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. A speech about a/an ______ is usually on something that happens regularly, something that happened once, something that marked our lives, or something that left us with a lasting impression.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. ______ is an organizational pattern that would lend itself well to a speech on an event or a person.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2. Speeches About Events and People
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. If your speech was to explain the history of an event, you would probably choose to use a ______ sequence.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2c. Frameworks for Speaking of Events and People
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Speeches about ideas or theories lend themselves to ______ development.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. An ______ speech can cover anything tangible.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. General or abstract ideas generally work best for concept or ______ speeches, as they allow for the most creative analysis and interpretation.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. A ______ format allows you to divide your subject into groups or major categories.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. ______ ideas make the best topics for concept speeches.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. When delivering a speech that focuses on a process or procedure, you will probably find it most useful to arrange your ideas in either chronological or ______ order.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. Asking “How do you do that?” when creating a speech lends itself to sharing our understanding about processes, procedures, and ______.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must convey to your listeners the ______ you have for the subject.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4d. Be Memorable
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. A quality of an informative speech is that it delivers the right amount of information, neither overloading nor ______ the audience with content.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Clarify what your audience knows by reducing their confusion or uncertainty, or providing a fresh way of ______.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. When you are ______, you enhance your message with sufficient specificity and detail for audience members to form clear mental pictures, grounding your ideas in specific references rather than vague abstractions.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Hard
16. Clarity and ______ go hand in hand.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Reusing the exact same words is referred to as ______.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. You can create information ______ to motivate your audience to learn a new body of content.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. Remember, although the speaker’s goal may be to share ideas, people are interested in other ______.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must convey the ______ you have for your subject to your listeners, and make it memorable.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. A speech about an event focuses on something that happens ______, or something that happened ______.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. One that contains too many main points, or step after step after step with no logical ______, is usually too difficult for receivers to interpret and remember.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. Speeches about ideas or theories lend themselves to chronological development.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Categories in which informative speech is divided include speeches about processes and procedures.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Speeches about objects lend themselves to topical, spatial, and chronological organizational formats.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. General or abstract ideas generally work best for concept or expository speeches, as they allow for the most creative analysis and interpretation.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A speech about promoting volunteer work is an informative speaking category.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. A speech on the Statue of Liberty would most likely be a speech about an object.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. Most subjects become interesting if adapted to the audience.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. An idea speech can cover anything tangible.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. There are a nearly unlimited number of topics about which we can share information.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Chapter 15. Speak to Inform
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. A speech in which you enumerated and discussed, in turn, key aspects of the idea would be following a spatial order.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. A speech about an object can cover anything tangible.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1a. Speaking About an Object
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. When we talk about ideas, audience members may have different interpretations of the concepts or words we use—primarily because personal experience influences meaning.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. A speech about an idea is also known as a concept speech.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. If you speak on an event, you should have personally witnessed it so you have credibility.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. Events and people make solid informative speech topics.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. Speeches on events and people lend themselves to causal patterns alone.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.2a. Speaking of Events
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. If you tell about the life of a person—someone famous or someone you know personally, someone living or dead, someone admired by or abhorrent to all—your goal is to make that person come alive for audience members.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.2b. Speaking of People
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. A speaker’s message is easier to follow if the presentation has a discernable structure.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. When you are concrete, you enhance your message with sufficient specificity and detail.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. It is important to explain complex concepts to minimize your chances of being misunderstood.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. Most subjects become interesting if well adapted to the audience.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. Reusing the exact same words is referred to as repetition.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. In order for your speech to remain with your audience after you have finished speaking, you must make it memorable.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4d. Be Memorable
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. You can create information hunger to motivate your audience to learn a new body of content.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. A speech is vague if audience members are able to identify its specific purpose and central idea too soon.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. When you are concrete, you enhance your message with sufficient specificity and detail for audience members to form clear mental pictures, grounding your ideas in specific references rather than vague abstractions.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Integrate supporting information that relates tangentially to your main ideas.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Help audience members process new content by using repetition (reusing the exact same words) and restatement (rephrasing an idea in different words to more fully explain it).
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. You must first capture and then sustain the audience’s interest so that they want to hear what you will say next throughout your speech.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer/Essay
1. What are speeches about ideas or theories?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. What is the power of the information you already possess as a speaker?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Hard
3. Discuss and exemplify why speaking about ideas is particularly challenging.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Discuss and exemplify what you are attempting to answer when speaking of a person.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.2b. Speaking of People
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Define the purpose of an informative speech.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Discuss and exemplify the two possible goals of informative speeches.
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. What are the different categories of informative speeches?
Learning Objective: 15.1: Define informative speaking, explaining its purpose
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1. Speeches About Objects and Ideas or Theories
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Describe the frameworks for speaking on processes, procedures, and demonstration.
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.3a. Frameworks for Speaking of Processes, Procedures, and Demonstrations
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. What is the goal of a speech about an idea or theory?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.1b. Speaking About an Idea or Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. What is the goal of a speech about a person?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.2b. Speaking of People
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. What are goals for informative speeches and how can a speaker accomplish those goals?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4. Achieving Informative Speaking Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. How can a speaker minimize jargon?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. What is the benefit of using concrete language?
Learning Objective: 15.2: Compare and contrast these methods of delivering information: a speech about objects, ideas or theories; a speech about events or people; and a speech about processes, procedures, or demonstrations
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: 15.4a. Be Organized, Clear, and Accurate
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. What does the idea of “pace, don’t race” mean?
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Why should a speaker use repetition?
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. How can a speaker create hunger for information?
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4c. Create Hunger for Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. How can a speaker make their speech memorable?
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Explain how not to take knowledge for granted.
Learning Objective: 15.3: Deliver an informative speech that is organized and communicates as simply and directly as possible, creates hunger for information in receivers by relating ideas directly to them, and is memorable
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: 15.4b. Convey the Right Amount of Information
Difficulty Level: Medium
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