the process of creating reinforcing, or changing people's beliefs or actions. - correct answer
✔✔persuasion
when you speak to persuade you act as a what? - correct answer ✔✔advocate
what is your job when you speak to persuade? - correct answer ✔✔to get the listeners to agree with you
and perhaps to act on that belief.
what may your goal be when you speak to persuade? (4) - correct answer ✔✔1. to defend an idea
2. to refute an opponent
3. to sell a program
4. to inspire people to take action
when you work on your persuasive speech, keep in mind the guidelines for ethical speaking. (5) - correct
answer ✔✔1. make sure your goals are ethically sound and that you can defend them if they are
questioned or challenged.
2. study the topic thoroughly so you wont mislead your audience
3. learn about all sides of an issue
4. seek out competing viewpoints
5. get your facts right
what are 2 additional principles that are crucial to the psychology of persuasion? - correct answer ✔✔1.
deals with how listeners process and respond to persuasive messages
2. pertains to the target audience for persuasive speeches
persuasion is something a speaker does ____ an audience. - correct answer ✔✔with
,the mental give-and-take between speaker and listener during a persuasive speech. - correct answer
✔✔mental dialogue with the audience
the portion of the whole audience that the speaker most wants to persuade. - correct answer ✔✔target
audience
a question about the truth or falsity of an assertion. - correct answer ✔✔question of fact
the situation for a persuasive speech on a question of fact is what? - correct answer ✔✔partisan
persuasive speeches on questions of fact are usually organized how? - correct answer ✔✔topically
a question about the worth, rightness, morality, and so forth of an idea or action. - correct answer
✔✔question of value
whenever you give a speech on a question of value, be sure to give special thought to what? - correct
answer ✔✔the standards for your value judgement
persuasive speeches on questions of value are almost always organized topically having the 1st main
point discuss what? and the 2nd main point discuss what? - correct answer ✔✔- 1st main point-
establishing the standards for your value judgement
- 2nd main point- applying those standards to the subject of your speech.
when you speak on a question of value, you must make sure to justify your judgement against what? -
correct answer ✔✔some identifiable standards
a question about whether a specific course of action should or should not be taken. - correct answer
✔✔question of policy
T/F?
, questions of policy inevitably involves questions of fact and may also involve questions of value - correct
answer ✔✔true
when you speak on a question of policy, what may be your goal? (2) - correct answer ✔✔1. to gain
passive agreement
OR
2. to motivate immediate action from your listeners
a persuasive speech in which the speakers goal is to convince the audience that a given policy is
desirable without encouraging the audience to take action in support of the policy. - correct answer
✔✔speech to gain passive agreement
a persuasive speech in which the speakers goal is to convince the audience to take action in support of a
given policy. - correct answer ✔✔speech to gain immediate action
regardless of whether your aim to elicit passive agreement or to gain immediate action, you will face 3
basic issues whenever you discuss a question of policy. What are they? - correct answer ✔✔1. need
2. plan
3. practicality
the first basic issue in analyzing a question of policy: is there a serious problem or need that requires a
change from current policy? - correct answer ✔✔need
the obligation facing a persuasive speaker to prove that a change from current policy is necessary. -
correct answer ✔✔burden of proof
the second basic issue in analyzing a question of policy: if there is a problem with current policy, does
the speaker have a plan to solve the problem? - correct answer ✔✔plan
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