A decision to buy a car based on an analysis of cost, comparative features, and frequency of repair would be a decision based on _______.
a. credibility
b. emotion
c. reasons
d. fallacies
Persuasive Speaking
- The problem-solution pattern is explicitly designed to motivate the audience to act.
- When you evoke positive emotions, your audience will more carefully consider your proposition and arguments.
- Reasoning that what is true in some instances or examples is true in all instances is an example of arguing by example.
- The peripheral route to processing is a detailed, critical analysis of an argument.
- According to the elaboration likelihood model, the importance we attribute to an issue determines whether we use the central route or the peripheral route.
- Lucas knows that his audience will probably be opposed to his specific idea for how to address homelessness in his community, so he gives a speech instead on the criteria he thinks are important for a solution that addresses homelessness. This pattern is an example of _______.
- A persuasive speech that begins with an attention step, moves on to determining a need and how the proposition meets that need, and then gives a personal application is following a pattern of organization called _______.
- An organizational pattern that is especially useful when the issue is not that a problem needs to be solved but whether the solution is a good one is called _______.
- A speech attempting to persuade you to buy a Ford rather than a Hyundai because parts are more readily available and service is cheaper uses a pattern of organization called _______.
- A speech attempting to persuade you to support a gun control bill because guns are used in a high percentage of crimes, because gun control will lower the use of guns, and because this bill on gun control is better than previous bills, is organized by what pattern?
- If the primary goal of a speech is to get the audience to behave a certain way, the speech can be considered to be organized by what pattern?
- The organizational pattern that seeks audience agreement on criteria to consider when evaluating a particular idea, and then shows how the proposition the speaker is advocating satisfies the criteria, is called _______.
- If you discover during your audience analysis that the costs associated with your proposition outweigh the incentives that you are offering, _______.
- A persuasive speech may attempt to change someones _______.
- Motivation may be defined as forces acting to _______.
- Dorri presents two solutions to a problem as if they are the only two options when there are really many choices. Dorri is engaging in the _______ fallacy.
- Kara says to Sunny, Did you hear Antonios speech? I thought it was really good. Sunny replies, How could you think he gave a good speech? Hes such a dork! All he does is play video games. What a loser. Sunnys response is an example of _______.
- If you noticed that your grades started going up after you started a protein shake regimen, and you suggested to a friend that you think protein shakes have made you smarter, you might be committing a fallacy of _______.
- If, based on a discussion with two classmates, you stated to the instructor that Many of the students in this class would like to have a take-home final, you would be committing a fallacy of _______.
- If you support the point that Colorado ski resort towns have been seeing an increase in wildlife habitat loss with the argument that There have been increased reporting of bear and deer in the downtown area, you would be _______.
- If you support the proposition that recycling rates have gone down on campus by saying, Students have been using recycling bins as trash containers, you would be _______.
- In a speech arguing that college tuition is far too expensive, you explain that there are high quality colleges in Canada that charge half the cost. This is an example of which kind of argument?
- When you are selecting evidence to support your speech claims, you should make sure that _______.
- I. You should watch ER. II. Episodes portray the leading characters with great sensitivity. III. Whether the medical staff portrayed are “good†or “bad,†we come to know them as persons; we see all facets of them. IV. The stories often have a great deal of emotional impact. V. You find yourself really caring about what happens to the people involved in various incidents in the show.