Persuasive Presentations MCQ

What two types of outlines are used most often in persuasive speaking?

Answer

Correct Answer: Keyword and full-sentence

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Which step of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence asks audience members to picture the positive outcomes of adopting the speaker’s proposal?

Answer

Correct Answer: Visualization

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

According to your text, what is the best way to organize a speech on a question of policy?

Answer

Correct Answer: Problem-cause-solution

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Latitude of ______ occurs when a speaker’s message does not change an audience member’s position, but instead the audience member retains his or her original position.

Answer

Correct Answer: Noncommitment

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Latitude of ______ occurs when a new argument is still too close to an audience member’s reject category.

Answer

Correct Answer: Rejection

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

The persuasive strategy of laying out the gains of accepting a speaker’s proposal is referred to as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Cost and benefits

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

The persuasive strategy of providing overwhelming evidence that any reasonable person would have to accept is referred to as ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Sufficiency of evidence

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

According to argument by relationship, (a) ______ occurs when two ideas happen at the same time but do not cause each other.

Answer

Correct Answer: Correlation

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

According to argument by relationship, (a) ______ occurs when one thing causes the other thing.

Answer

Correct Answer: Causation

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

When you use the definition of an idea or a concept as part of your persuasive appeal you are using ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Argument by definition

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

An argument by ______ occurs when a speaker compares one idea to another idea, such as when a speaker says, “shopping is like running a marathon.”

Answer

Correct Answer: Analogy

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

When a speaker cites specific cases to make general claims about his or her topic, he or she is using an argument by ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Example

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What type of persuasive claim is effective for speakers attempting to convince an audience that something is true?

Answer

Correct Answer: Questions of fact

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

What is used when trying to persuade the relative merits--good/bad, moral/immoral--of a position?

Answer

Correct Answer: Questions of value

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Messages focused on convincing an audience to take actions to make a given situation better are questions of ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Policy

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Sufficiency of evidence is providing overwhelming evidence so that any reasonable person would have to accept a position.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Social judgment theory is a ________ theory

Answer

Correct Answer: Persuasion

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Questions of value are asked

Answer

Correct Answer: To persuade for the relative merits of a position

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Questions that persuade for a change to an existing law, plan, or policy, or creating a new policy are called

Answer

Correct Answer: Questions of policy

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Questions of policy persuade that something is or is not true

Answer

Correct Answer: False

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Persuasion is the _________ of a person’s attitudes, beliefs, values, or outlook about a topic.

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Asking an audience to adopt and make small changes in behavior instead of one or more large behavioral changes is known as

Answer

Correct Answer: Micro changes

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Latitude of rejection involves arguments that are close to a person’s already held beliefs and are accepted

Answer

Correct Answer: False

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Arguments that cause people not to shift their already held beliefs but to maintain their original beliefs are known as

Answer

Correct Answer: Latitude of noncommitment

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Arguments that are close to a person’s already held beliefs and are accepted are called

Answer

Correct Answer: Latitude of acceptance

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Correlation is when two things happen at _______ time and do not cause each other

Answer

Correct Answer: Same

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Causation is an argument based on the one thing causing another thing.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Using the relationship between two ideas or concepts as part of a persuasive appeal is called Argument of relationship

Answer

Correct Answer: True

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Using examples as the main support for a persuasive appeal is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Argument by example

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Argument by definition uses the __________ of an idea or a concept as part of a persuasive appeal.

Answer

Correct Answer: Definition

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one

Argument by analogy is comparing different ideas or examples to reach a conclusion for a persuasive appeal.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one