Human Communication 7th Edition by Judy Pearson -Test Bank

Informative speaking to increase knowledge is most like what your teachers do in college classes.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 17. Explaining the historic relationship between Palestine and Israel is an example of the informative goal of clarifying complex issues.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Understand 18. Extrinsic motivation is related to information relevance for the audience member.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 19. Audience members tend to remember facts and details better than generalizations and main ideas.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 20. An immediate behavioral purpose is the action expected during and right after the speech.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 21. Some examples of appropriate behavioral purposes for an informative speech are to recognize, to compare, to define, and to distinguish.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 22. One way to determine whether your informative purpose has been fulfilled is to ask the audience to demonstrate their understanding, thereby proving their learning.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 23. To create a perceived need for learning information, you should avoid relying on extrinsic motivation.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 24. Information overload can occur as a result of both too much quantity and too much complexity of information.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 25. Information relevance refers to the usefulness of the information to the audience.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 26. One example of extrinsic motivation is one’s own driving desire to know and learn about new information and ideas.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 27. Increasing the amount of supporting material and main points is an acceptable strategy to combat potential information overload.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 28. Repeating points can make it more difficult for audience members to learn content.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 29. In a speech that is already interesting, the addition of humor improves the audience’s perception of the speaker’s authoritativeness.
FALSE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 30. A play-by-play of a basketball game is an example of narration.
TRUE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s level: Remember 31. Explanation involves analyzing, deconstructing, or dissecting something.
TRUE