Exam 4: Analyzing and Adapting to the Audience

Questionnaires generally contain three different kinds of questions, which is one of the common question types?

A ______ audience is one composed of persons of diverse ages with different characteristics, attitudes, values, and knowledge.

If you can ______ with audience members, taking the perspective of your receivers and exhibiting emotional responsiveness to their wants and needs, then it becomes more likely that they will listen to and respond as you hope they will to your speech.

Considering the speaking situation includes which of the following?

If you have an audience of religiously diverse listeners, you are encouraged ______.

You can adapt your speech to reflect your audience's makeup and perspective.

What is a demographic profile? What is it used for?

A ______ profile is a composite of characteristics such as age; gender; educational level; racial, ethnic or cultural ties; group affiliations; and socioeconomic background.

______-ended questions are highly structured, requiring only that the respondent indicate which of the provided responses most accurately reflects his or her opinion and so generate clear, unambiguous answers.

According to Tannen, "women speak and hear a language of ______ and ______" whereas "men speak and hear a language of status and independence."

Memberships in occupational and social groups provide speakers with a pretty accurate prediction of the way audience members will react to a topic.

Closed-ended questions are those that make it possible for a respondent to indicate his/her view along a continuum or scale.

If you can ______ with audience members, taking the perspective of your receivers and exhibiting emotional responsiveness to their wants and needs, then it becomes more likely that they will listen to and respond as you hope they will to your speech.

When you learn about your audience member's ______, you understand how they see themselves: their personality, values, attitudes, etc.

Asking respondents to report their feelings on organ donation using a continuum from "extremely negative" to "extremely positive" would be which type of question?

When you are bearing in mind an audience member's income, you are considering their ______ background.

"What are your thoughts on animal testing?" would be an example of an open-ended question.

It is rare to have a heterogeneous audience.

"What are your feelings on same-sex adoption?" would be an example of which type of question?

Before class starts or right after it finishes are good times to make small talk with your peers in an effort to discover what they think about certain topics.