Deck 15: Giving Informative and Persuasive Talks

Question 1

Aristotle argued that there are three primary features of persuasive arguments. When speakers use their credibility to persuade, they are using which feature?

A) Pathos
B) Logos
C) Ethos
D) Mythos

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following research ideas would be of interest to an interpersonal scholar?

A) A study of parasocial relationships
B) A study of television viewing patterns of families and the impact on their relationships.
C) A study of how adolescents use anti-drug messages on TV in dealing with peer pressure at school.
D) All of the above.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following research ideas would be of interest to a media studies scholar?

A) A study of parasocial relationships.
B) A study of how the international sales of American television shows impact the lives of the people in other countries.
C) A study of how students use text messaging in the classroom.
D) All of the above.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Social science researchers are typically positivists or post-positivists.

Question 5

Which of the following is not a common structure of departments that study communication?

A) Department of Speech Communication
B) Department of Speech and Theater
C) School of Communication
D) School of PerformanceTrue/False

Question 6

Aristotle argued that there are three primary features of persuasive arguments. When speakers use logic to persuade, they are using which feature?

A) Pathos
B) Logos
C) Ethos
D) Mythos

Question 7

Aristotle argued that there are three primary features of persuasive arguments. When speakers use emotion to persuade, they are using which feature?

A) Pathos
B) Logos
C) Ethos
D) Mythos

Question 8

What was the technology that moved communication technology from military use to mass audience use.

A) Radio
B) Television
C) Wireless telephony
D) Printing press

Question 9

Which of the following is not a system of discourse outlined by post-modernists?

A) Discourse of modernism
B) Discourse of criticism
C) Discourse of vulnerability
D) Discourse of representation.

Question 10

Why is communication so important?

A) It is the central to the conduct of society and is affected by society.
B) It is a historically neutral field of study.
C) It is one of the newest fields of study in academia.
D) All of the above

Question 11

Which of the following is characteristic of social science research?

A) Involves laboratory experiments
B) Involves precise measurements of behavior
C) Relies on statistical analysis of what is studied
D) All of the above

Question 12

What might an interpretivist researcher be interested in studying?

A) An in-depth study of how individuals understand conflict in romantic relationships.
B) A survey of people's opinion about persuasive messages in political advertisements.
C) A textual analysis of how power structures are embedded in workplace communication.
D) None of the above

Question 13

17) The discourse of suspicion, as discussed by post-modernism, argues that there may be three kinds of rationality. Which of the following is not one of these kinds of reality?

A) Technical
B) Practical
C) Logical
D) Emancipatory

Question 14

Which of the following research ideas would be of interest to a critical scholar?

A) A study of how conflict resolution is managed in American corporations.
B) A study of how television reproduces gender stereotypes.
C) A study of how dysfunctional family relationships impact an individual's non-family relationships.
D) All of the above

Question 15

What is the name of the communication studies honor society?

A) Gamma Delta Tau
B) Lambda Phi Beta
C) Psi Epsilon Lambda
D) Lamba Phi Eta

Question 16

Which of the following is a disadvantage of critical research?

A) It does not discuss the issue of how power is accepted by those without power.
B) It does not focus enough on relationships.
C) It does not adequately answer the question of whether there can be a general interpretation of individual experience.
D) It suffers from reductio ad absurdum

Question 17

Which of the following is a common research method used by interpretivists?

A) In-depth interviews
B) Textual analysis
C) Surveys
D) All of the above

Question 18

The major perspectives of the study of communication include all but which of the following:

A) Social Science
B) Experimental Science
C) Interpretivist
D) Post-Modernism

Question 19

The primary difference between mass communication and rhetoric is that rhetorical communication has the possibility to reach many times more people.

Question 20

What is the underpinning concept that our textbook authors argue is most important to the future of the communication discipline?

A) Inclusion of women and minorities in research topics
B) Inclusion of new technologies, such as cell phones, in research.
C) Inclusion of how relationships impact all areas of communication.
D) None of the above.

Question 21

Most communication contains either an explicit or implicit relational element.

Question 22

Social scientists believe in objective Truth.

Question 23

Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero are seen as important historical figures who started the study of interpretivism.
Short Answer

Question 24

The histories of communication are written within particular political and social forces.

Question 25

What sets Communication Research apart from Interpersonal Communication as research traditions?

Question 26

Describe two relational influences on communication studies and their histories.

Question 27

Critical scholars are interested in identifying hidden but powerful structures and practices that create or uphold inequity.

Question 28

Describe the primary differences between social science and interpretivism.

Question 29

The relationships between faculty have little impact on the history of the discipline of communication studies.

Question 30

Communication is affected by societal, political, and economic forces.

Question 31

Describe two primary differences between rhetorical communication and mass communication and media studies.

Question 32

Describe how the histories of communication have changed in the past 30 years?

Question 33

Describe the purpose of Society's Secret Agents in ancient dramatic performance, and compare that to performance artists and scholars today.

Question 34

Describe three ways that printed material impacted the development of literate culture over the oral cultures that preceded it.

Question 35

In literate cultures, the ability to remember past speeches is enhanced.