When preparing a presentation on the effects of smoking, you decide to interview a pulmonary physician at your university. The testimony provided by this physician is ______.

a. personal testimony
b. expert testimony
c. comparative testimony
d. lay testimony


b. expert testimony

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the relationships among the speaker, the audience, and speech anxiety?

A) The audience tends to overestimate a speaker's anxiety. B) The audience is oblivious to the speaker's anxiety. C) Speakers who have speech anxiety often overestimate how much the audience notices their behavior. D) Speakers who have speech anxiety often underestimate how much the audience notices their behavior. E) Cultural differences are not necessarily a cause of anxiety.

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Taking time to carefully determine your specific purpose and the central idea helps you answer the question of

a. why you are speaking. b. what you are talking about. c. how you will talk about the subject. d. where you will gather your materials.

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Which virtue of Aristotle's doctrine of the mean represents a desirable balance between the dialectical extremes of Shyness ? Shamelessness?

a) Bravery b) Humbleness c) Truthfulness d) Purposefulness e) Honor

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The degree to which members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous situations and try to stay away from them is known as ____________.a. power distance b. code-switching c. uncertainty avoidance d. assimilation c. uncertainty avoidance

a. power distance b. code-switching c. uncertainty avoidance d. assimilation

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