"To inform my audience about living conditions in an institution for autistic children" is a specific purpose statement for which type of speech?

A. description
B. topical
C. process
D. definition


Answer: A

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When an individual becomes cognitively or physically aroused by an expectancy violation, that individual will likely

A. become more focused on the violation than the message itself B. automatically assign a negative meaning to the violation C. feel romantically attracted to the violator D. All of the answers are correct.

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Matching

1) Nonverbal messages that highlight, stress, or enhance the verbal message. 2) Unintentional behaviors that are usually responses to boredom or stress or responses closely linked with negative feelings toward ourselves or others. 3) Nonverbal function of adding to, clarifying, enriching, emphasizing, or supplementing a verbal message. 4) Gestures and movements that have a direct verbal translation and can be used to stimulate specific meanings in the minds of others in place of verbal communication. 5) Form of touch that lets another person know that we care for, value, and have an interest in her or him. 6) The study of the type, amount, uses of, and the results of tactile behavior. 7) People who are at their peak in late afternoon and evening and at their worst in early morning. 8) Form of time that emphasizes the involvement of many people and is less rigid about the ordering of events and scheduling, and they believe in handling several transactions at once. 9) Nonverbal messages that restate, reinforce, duplicate, or reiterate the verbal message. 10) A semi fixed or fixed space whose perceived owners can move in and out of it without giving up their claim to it. It is claimed, staked out in some way, and defended against encroachment. A) Friendship-Warmth Touch B) Oculesics C) Accenting D) Attraction E) Sparrows F) Repeating G) Owls H) Territory I) Haptics J) Polychronic K) Adaptors L) Complimenting M) Emblems N) Contradicting O) Reinforcing P) Regulating Q) Regulators R) Proxemics S) Functional-Professional Touch T) Monochronic

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If you neither agree nor disagree with a specific issue, you are illustrating the direction aspect

of the multimensionality of values. Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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