Our interpretation of stimuli is influenced by
a. expectancy and familiarity.
b. salience and vividness.
c. schemas and figure-ground.
d. proximity and similarity.
e. closure and similarity.
a
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a) readability. b) creativity. c) objectivity. d) brevity.
Irving Janis identified groupthink as a phenomenon that occurs in groups that are ______.
a. more concerned with making good decisions than with getting along b. equally concerned with making good decisions and getting along c. more concerned with getting along than with making good decisions d. more concerned with making good decisions than with making money
Parallel wording and repetition are two devices a speaker can use to create __________ within a speech.
A. antithesis B. rhythm C. connotation D. vividness
As an opponent for a policy proposition, which of the following questions should you NOT ask yourself in establishing your strategy of opposition?
(a) What is the advocate's burden of proof and has she met it? (b) Has the advocate implied one or more values that she asks the audience to accept without explaining the value(s)? (c) Has the advocate used the "traditional" need-plan-advantage structure for developing the proposition? (d) Does the advocate's reason for change contain assumptions that are unwarranted because she has not offered adequate proof and reasoning for these assumptions?