Public Speaking Midterm
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- Deficiency Needs
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Basic human needs
1. Biological needs
2. Safety needs
3. Belongingness and Love needs
4. Self- and Social-esteem needs - Growth Needs
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Higher-order human needs
1. Self-acutalization
2. Knowledge and Understanding
3. Aesthetic needs - Transaction
- Involves a simultaneous exchange of message between two or more people
- System
- A collection of interdependent parts, parts arranged so that a change in one produces corresponding changes in the remaining parts
- Interdependence
- Exists when things have a reciprocal influence on one another
- Feedback
- Audience memembers responses, both verbal and nonverbal, to a speaker
- Message
- Meaning produced by communicators
- Content
- Essential meaning of what a speaker wants to convey
- Relational Component
- Collective impact of the verbal and nonverbal components of a message as it is conveyed
- Symbol
- Something that stands for or suggest something else by reason of relationship
- Encoding
- Process by which ideas are translated into a code that can be understood by receiver
- Decoding
- Process by which code is translated back into ideas
- Channel
- Physical medium through which communication occurs
- Perception
- Process by which we give meaning to our experiences
- Audience
- Individuals who share in listening to a speech