As your textbook explains, abstractions are especially useful for clarifying ideas in informative speeches.

Understanding listening preferences, priorities, and emotionally charged words is a

a. means of assessing self ?perception. b. means of assessing others' perceptions. c. form of distraction. d. hedge against boredom.

The argument that because people vary greatly in their psychological makeup, and because they have different perceptions of things, media influence differs from person to person is the basis of:

a. social categories theory. b. two-step flow theory. c. controlled variation theory. d. individual differences theory.