When you present the most important or convincing idea first in your speech, you are using the principle of

a. primacy.
b. specificity.
c. complexity.
d. recency.


a

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Demagoguery is the attempt to gain control over others by using unethical emotional pleas and appealing to listeners' prejudices

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All of the following are true regarding confirming listening and responses EXCEPT

a. people feel acknowledged and honored. b. people withhold judgment and avoid distractions. c. listeners focus primarily on the content level of messages. d. there is a correlation with enhanced resistance and recovery from disease and infection. e. All of the above

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When we are too wrapped up in our own thoughts to receive messages and listen effectively, we are experiencing

a. preoccupation. b. message complexity. c. message overload. d. physical noise. e. selective listening.

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In the context of Kolb's cycle of learning, people who learn well by thinking about factual material and connect well when ideas are supported with detailed definitions, explanations, facts, and statistics are categorized as accommodators

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