Stephanie felt uncomfortable when she gave her first speech in class. She was the only African-American in her class; all the other students were white. She had been raised in a neighborhood in St. Louis that was predominantly African-American,

and she was
accustomed to frequent audience responses that meant involvement with and support of the
speaker. When her classmates sat there passively without saying a word and making few
facial expressions, she felt they were bored, perhaps even hostile. Before her second speech,
she continually told herself, ?They don?t mean to be rude or disinterested, they just have
different cultural rules for appropriate behavior during a speech.? This helped her feel more
confident during her speech. Stephanie was using which method of adapting to the audience?
A) bafflegabs B) self-talk C) empathizing D) visualization

B