Exam 1: Introduction to Persuasion in Everyday Practices

Interference with either the transmission or the reception of the message is:

The famous phrase "The medium is the message" came from the works of:

The First Amendment supports the right of speakers to persuade and even to propagandize audiences.

"The map is not the territory" means that you are lost.

The effect of a message depends upon a complex interplay among the source, message, and receiver based on similarity of attitudes, values, and beliefs held by the people involved.

If a communication strategy works, then it is by definition ethical.

Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."

The Scopes monkey trial was held in Tennessee in 1921 with two powerful lawyers who presented the claims of creationism and evolution. They were:

IMC means inconclusive models of communication.

Propaganda originated in the Vatican in 1622 as a means to universalize the Roman Catholic Church when the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide was created.

Ethics is the day-to-day practice of choosing between right and wrong alternatives.

Rhetorical discourse is complicated because it is _-centered.

The elaboration likelihood theory can be described as:

Credibility is the reputation and believability of the speaker and includes:

Justice Blackmun wrote the opinion for the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade case.

Explain the origin of the term propaganda and explain how the term has become pejorative.

Rhetoric has become a negative or connotatively loaded word because it is associated with:

Vocalics deal with the nonverbal code that analyzes vocal quality, rate, volume, dialect, resonance, and other speech properties that compose a speaker's communication skills.

Theodore Windt said presidential decisions are made in a world that has been created by the discourse from the executive office.

Persuasion has no role in the ministry.