Exam 16: Informative Speaking

In your informative speech on child development, you explain that by age three most other mammals are already independent and almost fully adults. Human babies, on the other hand, are still very much dependent on their mothers. This explanation is an example of a ________________.

One type of informative speech is a process speech. Define process speech and give an example of a topic for a process speech. Then, list the main points in order. Finally, indicate how you could effectively use a visual aid or demonstration in that speech.

A speech that provides in-depth information that is taken from careful research is ___________________.

____________ involves going into more detail than people's general knowledge of a topic and _____________ involves looking at how your topic relates to associated topics.

You can define a word by explaining its derivation or history.

An informative speech about the discovery of gravity and the historical reaction to this event is an expository speech that explains ____

Which of the following behaviors is most likely to produce a new creative approach to a speech?

According to your textbook, when the speech topic is one with which the audience is already familiar, they are more likely to listen if ________________.