Study Guide for Intro to Spch Exam 1- Fall 2010
Ms Dye
I'm still editing the Exam 1. It may be shorter than what it is right now but it will not be longer. So, this list will definitely be what you want to know for the exam.
The questions will be listing and defining questions so be prepared to write out short and long answers. The exam is worth 200 points.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Be able to define the following:
1. Active Listening
2. Passive Listening
3. Active Listening Behaviors
4. Discriminative Listening
5. Evaluative Listening
6. Appreciative Listening
7. Emphatic Listening
8. Noise
9. External Noise
10. Internal Noise
11. Semantic Noise
12. Communication Loop- Be able to draw this diagram. It is the Diagram I drew on the board with following elements: Speaker, Audience Idea, Encode, Transmit, Receive, Decode, Repeat, the 3 Noises
13. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs- (Know and draw the Pyramid Diagram). Be able to draw and give examples. Basic needs of all human beings organized by psychologist Abraham H. Maslow. The needs are based on five levels: physiological, safety and security, love, esteem, and self-actualization (not a good definition in the book so here is one): “What a man can be, he must be.”[7] This forms the basis of the perceived need for self-actualization. This level of need pertains to what a person's full potential is and realizing that potential. Maslow describes this desire as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming
14. Beliefs
15. Values
16. Pathos
17. Logos
18. Ethos
19. Parts of Speech: Introduction, Body, Conclusion
20. Listening Barriers
21. How to become an active listener and speaker.
22. General Adaptation Syndrome: Alarm Reaction, Resistance Stage, Exhaustion
23. Physical Symptoms of Nervousness
24. How to reduce apprehension
25. Elements of Virtue
26. Ethics
27. Hidden Agenda
28. Good indicators of a speaker’s ethical standards are the policies and actions the individual recommends.
29. Does the speaker exhibit concern for the welfare of the audience?
30. Does the speaker advocate choices that are helpful to listeners?
31. Does the speaker purpose solutions that benefit society?
32. Ways to formulate your own ethical standards: Be honest. Advocate ideas that benefit others. Evaluate your motives for Speaking. Develop a speaking code of ethics
33. Direct Quotation
34. Paraphrased Passage
35. Plagiarized Passage
36. I gave you 2 quotes early in the semester by G. K Chesterton and Frederick Buechner know these.
