One strategy that can help you to control distractions that make active or critical listening a challenge is:

a. note taking.
b. focusing on speakers themselves.
c. preconceptions about the topic.
d. stereotypes.

a

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When the primary objective is to increase listeners' understanding, awareness, or knowledge of some topic, one delivers __________

a. specific instances and rhetorical questions b. a speech to persuade c. a speech to inspire d. a speech to inform e. a speech to entertain

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Corinne explained to her classmates, "Let's take the psychological elements we just discussed and apply them to the issue before us." What is she using to connect the elements of her speech?

A. a partition B. hypothetical question C. transition D. rhetorical question

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