What is the role of the receiver in the communication process?
a. To encode messages
b. To decide the medium to use to receive messages
c. To interpret and make sense of a message
d. To receive the message being sent
Answer:
c. To interpret and make sense of a message
d. To receive the message being sent
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As an opponent in value argumentation, you have the strategic option of challenging the advocate's criteria. In using this strategy, which of the following could you NOT do?
(a) Challenge the advocate's definition of the value object as either including elements she failed to consider, or excluding elements that she erroneously included. (b) Challenge the appropriateness of the advocate's criteria as "good" measures of effect, significance, and inherency. (c) Challenge the appropriateness of the advocate's criteria on the basis that they are too unusual or that they are more appropriate for measuring some other value object. (d) Provide better, more appropriate, criteria for measuring the value object.
When a PowerPoint slide contains too much text, the tendency of the audience is to
__________ the slide rather than listen to the speaker. a. read b. ignore c. translate d. destroy e. re?do
The notion that news reporting should be "objective" gradually developed in response to all of the following influences EXCEPT
A) the Associated Press's desire to serve the informational needs of all its member newspapers. B) the desire to not lose money by offending advertisers or readers with partisanship. C) the fear of violating the First Amendment by appearing to take sides in political campaigns. D) the Penny Press's desire to appeal to the largest possible audience.
What fallacy is exemplified by the following statement?If we approve a construction permit for this home, the next thing you know other people will want to build in our valley. Then they will pave new roads and put in gas stations and other businesses. Before you know it, all of our beautiful land will be turned into a parking lot for a giant shopping mall.
A. ad hominem B. red herring C. either-or D. bandwagon E. slippery slope