Dafna wants to give an informative speech on the steps for planning a wedding. Consider how
she might analyze her audience. What demographic information should she gather, and why?
What would she need to know about her audience's attitude?
What will be an ideal response?
Demographic information includes characteristics such as age, cultural heritage,
educational background, gender, geographical location, marital and parental status, occupation,
race, religious orientation, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, and group affiliations.
Audiences will have attitudes toward a topic, toward the speaker, and toward being at the
speech.
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Which of the following best illustrates the Openness-Closedness dialectic?
a. One person is more "open-minded," while the other is more "closed to new experiences." b. One person believes in telling all in a relationship when the other thinks there are some things that should not be discussed because they are in the past. c. A couple's conflicts involve time management because one person is always late. d. A couple cannot agree on whether they should tell their neighbors the specific details of their vacation plans.
Reggie is well-dressed, friendly and on time to his job interview. Therefore, the interviewer also assumes he is intelligent and capable. This is an example of the _______
a. self-serving bias b. self-fulfilling prophecy c. halo effect d. reverse halo effect