COMM 301 Week 6 Quiz 2

COMM 301 Week 6 Quiz 2 | Los Rios Community College

Stand Up, Speak Out Chapter 17 Quiz

Question 1

What is the use of communication to get a person to behave in a manner or embrace a point-of-view related to values, attitudes, and/or beliefs that he or she would not have done otherwise?    

·         persuasion  

·         guidance  

·         impact 

·         conversion

 

Question 2

An attitude is defined as  

·         an individual’s general predisposition toward something as being good or bad, right or wrong, or negative or positive.  

·         propositions or positions that an individual holds as true or false without positive knowledge or proof.  

·         an individual’s perception of the usefulness, importance, or worth of something.  

·         a virtual belief

 

 Question 3

Which of the following types of claims argues the truth or falsity of an assertion?  

·         immediate action claim  

·         factual claim  

·         value claim  

·         policy claim

 

 Question 4

A value is defined as:  

·         an individual’s general predisposition toward something as being good or bad, right or wrong, or negative or positive.    

·         an individual’s perception of the usefulness, importance, or worth of something.  

·         a person’s degree of willingness to consider alternative points of view.  

·         a virtual belief

 

Question 5

Julia loves to analyze political speeches. She loves to see how politicians put together specific phrases in an attempt to persuade audiences. She also loves evaluating the truthfulness of various statements politicians make and whether those politicians’ arguments are logical. What personality trait does Julia possess?  

·         neuroticism  

·         argumentativeness 

·         elaboration intensity  

·         need for cognition

 

Question 6

Which organization pattern for persuasive speeches that allows the speaker to show why one thing has more positives that something else is called:  

·         Speech of Reasons  

·         Monroe's Motivated Sequence  

·         Comparative Advantages  

·         Problem-Cause-Solution

 

 Question 7

A dispositional belief is a belief that people have actively engaged in and created over the course of their lives.  

·         True    

·         False

  

Question 8

The latitude of liking is the range of acceptable behaviors or thoughts individuals will accept as discussed by Muzafer Sherif and Carl Hovland’s (1961) social judgment theories.  

·         True  

·         False

 

Question 9

The Visualization Step of Monroe's Motivated Sequence helps the audience envision what would happen if they do or do not make the proposed change.

·         True 

·         False

 

Question 10

"Students should pursue a certificate or degree program in Communication Studies" is which type of persuasive claim?  

·         Value claim    

·         Policy claim  

·         Factual claim  

·         Dispositional claim