Jane is in a car accident and calls her mother immediately to inform her. When Jane’s mother answers the phone, she is confused about what is going on because Jane is speaking so quickly. What aspect of paralanguage (or vocalics) is making it difficult for Jane’s mom to understand what her daughter is saying?

Presentation aids consist of visual, auditory, and/or sensory materials used by a speaker to support, illustrate, clarify, reinforce, and/or enhance their points while presenting a speech to an audience.

It doesn’t matter at all to your listeners if you and they share important attitudes, beliefs and values; they will either be persuaded or not persuaded solely on the strength of your argument.

A cyclopropane-oxygen mixture is used as an anesthetic. If the partial pressure of cyclopropane in the mixture is 330 mmHg and the partial pressure of the oxygen is 1.0 atm, what is the total pressure of the mixture in mm Hg?

A good speech introduction should do a few things, but first and foremost, it should ________________________.

Hearing and listening are practically synonymous; they both involve the process of interpreting meaning from another person’s message.

Verbal immediacy refers to language that is used to reduce psychological distance between the speaker and the audience; it’s a way of using language to enhance your connection with the audience.

In ionic compounds, ________ gain valence electrons to form negatively charged ________.

Juan and Melinda have been in a committed relationship for two years, but lately, Melinda has been using every disagreement with Juan to prove that she’s “right.” Juan is confused, hurt, and frustrated by Melinda’s __________________________ style of conflict management, and is questioning whether he even wants to continue to relationship with her.

The vocabulary, or collection of words and expressions used a language, is called the lexicon.