Explain how eye contact impacts an audience's perception of a speaker
What will be an ideal response?
A speaker's ability to maintain eye contact with an audience can signal confidence,
concern, sincerity, interest, enthusiasm, and other positive characteristics. A lack of sustained
eye contact or failure to effectively distribute eye contact among audience members can
communicate nervousness, insecurity, deception, or disinterest. A speaker should always strive
to create the impression that they are making eye contact with each audience member.
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a. Racial/cultural awareness b. Coping c. Identity emergence d. Anticipation
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A. innovators B. early majority D. late majority