Exam 15: Appendix: Communicating for Career Success

Your roommate has not been doing his fair share of the housework. Using the three basic steps of the problem-solution method, how would you try to discourage this behavior and actuate him to help out more around the apartment?

Listeners are required to determine the truth when there is a proposition of ____________.

Communication that is in the best interest of the audience, that does not depend on false or misleading information to change an audience's attitude or behavior, is ethical ____________.

If someone's leg begins to ache before it rains, and he assumes that the pain caused the rain, this would be an example of which fallacy?

During the presidential elections, candidates are often vying for the attention of a small portion of the audience that are more likely to change their vote, called swing voters. Swing voters are an example of which of the following?

Suppose that a classmate is giving a speech with the expressed goal to convince you that smoking is unhealthy. If at the start of the speech you are not receptive to her ideas but during her presentation you begin to appreciate your classmate's position, this would most likely be an example of which of the following?

Successful persuasion is usually ____________ because attitudes do not normally change instantly or dramatically.

Matching -"Ride-sharing services have contributed to traffic gridlock in many cities."

____________ credibility is acquired after a speaker has finished a speech.

Matching -Everyone I know takes a cruise in September. We should take a Royal Caribbean ship to Alaska this fall.

Enthusiasm is most closely related to ____________.

A salesperson lying about the effectiveness of his product would be an example of which of the following?

Which of the following would best be described as the bandwagon appeal (argumentum ad populum) fallacy?

A motivational speaker who asks the audience "Do you want to improve your life today?" is doing which of the following?

Matching -Matthew McConaughey only drives Lincolns. Let's take one for a test drive.

Which of the following best describes the difference between actuating and convincing an audience?

Which of the following best summarizes the difference between ethical and unethical persuasion?

"California is the best place to live" is an example of a proposition of ____________.

Trying to stir the audience's emotions through vivid stories and powerful testimony is using which of Aristotle's appeals?

A parent who threatens his or her child with a spanking to get him to clean his room would be an example of ____________.