Exam 17: Methods of Persuasion

______ credibility refers to how receivers perceive you before you speak.

When you put a red herring in your speech, you lead your audience to consider an irrelevant issue instead of the subject of the discussion.

What is a bandwagon appeal?

Which of the following is a slippery slope fallacy?

Terminal credibility refers to how the audience perceives you after your speech.

The proof, ______ is the ability to use logic to demonstrate the reasonableness of argument(s).

What is logos?

The ______ is a logical and persuasive relationship that explains how you get to your claim from the data you offer.

The focus of your attention should go to the members of the audience who are ______.

We can often summarize a group of ______ with statistics.

Which of the following are reasoning fallacies?

How the audience perceives you while you are speaking is known as ______ credibility.

Describe and exemplify inductive reasoning.

What are Aristotle's three means of persuasion?

A straw man is an attack on a person instead of a subject.

Persuasion is traditionally a step-by-step process.

______ are numbers summarizing a group of observations.

When a speaker asks us to endorse an idea because a well-liked personality who is not an ______ on the subject has endorsed it, we should question the request critically.

You find yourself on a red herring when asserting that one action will set in motion a chain of events.

Et tu post hoc is Latin for "after this; therefore, because of this."