As you come into the room, you see that the chairs have all been lined up into neat rows and pushed back away from the front of the room. A large podium dominates the front of the room with a small light shining down on the top

This suggests the speaker wants to increase the perceived formality of the situation.
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In developing her speech on scuba diving, Rachael is trying to decide whether or not to tell the audience in her introduction that she has been a diver since she was a freshman in high school. She wonders if this will help or hurt her credibility

What textbook advice applies here? a. Rachael should avoid describing her experience because she will appear to be speaker-centered and not audience-centered. b. Rachael should give a brief, credibility-building explanation of her experience with the topic. c. Rachael should avoid referencing her personal experience with the topic because it will make her appear boastful and actually detract from her credibility. d. For the sake of suspense, Rachael should wait until her conclusion to describe her diving experience.

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Defining how the brain is divided into two hemispheres, the right and the left, is an example of:

a) operational definition. b) complicated structures. c) involved processes. d) associated features.

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According to Media Richness Theory, your personal presence does not make a difference in how well you communicate

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Persons with a high power-distance culture prefer

A. individualism and authoritarian leadership. B. low levels of conformity among group members. C. nonconformists and democratic leadership. D. hands-off leaders, or shared leadership. E. conformity and directive leadership.

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