SPC 1017 FSU Midterm Latest Update 2025-2026

SPC 1017 FSU Midterm Latest Update 2025-2026 70 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+

Analyzing the Audience - CORRECT ANSWER: 1) Knowledge

• how much does the audience know about the subject?

2) Attitudes and Beliefs

• How does the audience feel about your topic?

3) Demographics

• age, race, gender, cultural backgrounds in the audience and how that affects your

topic

Analyzing the occasion - CORRECT ANSWER: 1) Time

• Time frame for the speech, time of day, and length of your speech

2) Place

• Physical stage for the speech and the interaction with the audience

3) Channel

• What channel of communication links you and your audience?

Barriers to Intercultural communication - CORRECT ANSWER: 1) Ethnocentrism

2) Stereotyping

• Oversimplified or distorted views of another race, ethnic group, or culture

3) Prejudice

• negative attitude towards a cultural group based on little or no experience

4) Discrimination

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Central Idea - CORRECT ANSWER: The essential thought that runs through the speech or communication

Channels - CORRECT ANSWER: -the route traveled by a message

-it is the means a message uses to reach the sender-receivers -THE SENSES-touch,taste,smell, TECHNOLOGY(thru text messages)

Characteristics of a good delivery - CORRECT ANSWER: 1) Conversational quality

• Talk to your audience the way you talk when you have a conversation w/ anyone

2) Attentiveness

• Focus on the moment, being aware of and responding to your listeners needs

3) Immediacy

• The commentator is completely focused on the communication situation

4) Direct

• Be natural and straightforward

Citing Your sources - CORRECT ANSWER: - Name of person being quoted, or who

wrote the article, or who authored the book, or who you interviewed.

• The qualifications of the person or author. What is it that makes him or her an expert?

Why did you choose to quote this person in your speech?

• The name of the article, book, magazine, or journal

• The date of the quotation or the piece being cited, or the date the interview took place

Co - Culture - CORRECT ANSWER: Represents non whites, women, people with

disabilities, LGBTQ, and those in lower social classes who have specific patterns of behaviors that set them off from other groups w/in a larger culture

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