Toni sat through a speech presentation at the local service organization's monthly meeting
last week.
The speaker wanted to be sure that all audience members understood what he had to
say, so he spoke in a deliberate, slow fashion in order to achieve his goal. The technique
backfired and the vast majority of the audience became bored and some even left. This was most
likely due to which of the following?
A) conversational narcissism
B) selective listing
C) information overload
D) differing speech rate and thought rate
D
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