Chapter 2 Quiz Without Consequence

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Picturing your audience naked is an effective technique for diminishing speech anxiety because it addresses the root causes of such anxiety.

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The useful approach to speech anxiety, generally, is to eliminate the fight-or-flight response, not merely moderate the symptoms.

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Informing a person about the illusion of transparency can free speakers from the cycle of anxiety and help them present better speeches.

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Gaining proper perspective as a means of reducing speech anxiety means concentrating on what could go wrong while giving your speech and trying hard to correct these deficiencies as you present your speech.

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Often your first classroom speech will be a personal introduction—a nonthreatening narrative that tells a story in three parts.

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Anxiety-provoking situations include

conspicuousness of the speaker (spotlighted) correct incorrect

subordinate status of the speaker in relation to the audience correct incorrect

novelty of the speaking situation correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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Speech anxiety is

a rare occurrence for most people correct incorrect

a frequent occurrence for only a few highly anxious individuals correct incorrect

a common problem for most people correct incorrect

almost incapacitating for about half the student population correct incorrect

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When addressing the symptoms of the fight-or-flight response to speech anxiety, it is reasonable to assume that

you can deactivate selective, dysfunctional symptoms correct incorrect

the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for the fight-or-flight response can be entirely controlled by mental discipline correct incorrect

the sympathetic nervous system responsible for the fight-or-flight response can be selectively activated to choose only symptoms that prove to be functional for the speaker correct incorrect

none of the above correct incorrect

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The key differences between functional and dysfunctional speech anxiety include

how swiftly the anxiety completely disappears once you begin speaking correct incorrect

the degree of anxiety and your ability to manage it correct incorrect

the degree to which you make zero anxiety your goal correct incorrect

a and c correct incorrect

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The communication orientation to reducing speech anxiety

focuses on performing well correct incorrect

focuses on presenting a clear message, not on your performance correct incorrect

is enhanced by practicing your speech conversationally with a friend correct incorrect

b and c correct incorrect