COM ARTS 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Simile, Anxiety, Gender-Neutral Language
30 Oct 2014
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Stage fright: anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience. Adrenaline: a hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress. Positive nervousness: controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation. Visualization: mental imagine in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation. Critical thinking: focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundness of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion. Speaker: the person who is presenting an oral message to a listener. Message: whatever a speaker communicates to someone else. Channel: the means by which a message is communicated. Listener: the person who receives the speaker"s message. Frame of reference: the sum of a person"s knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. No two people can have exactly the same frame of reference. Feedback: the messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker.
