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A sensory process in which sound waves are transmitted to the brain and someone becomes conscious of sound.
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A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory.
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Verbal and nonverbal audience response to a speech, usually taken seriously by a speaker and incorporated into the speech when possible.
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The length of time a person will attend to a message without feeling distracted.
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The tendency to regard two similar messages as basically identical, blurring the distinction between them.
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Diagramming the relationship between the thesis of a speech and its main ideas.
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Listening that enables you to offer both an accurate rendering of the speech and an interpretation and assessment of it.
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The ability to form and defend your own judgments rather than blindly accepting or instantly rejecting what you hear or read.
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Statements that can be independently verified by others; they are either true or false.
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Judgments that cannot be independently verified and that are not clearly true or false.
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Unstated, taken-for-granted beliefs in a particular situation.
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Considered, thoughtful (as opposed to automatic).
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Judgments that can be articulated and defended by providing the reasons for them.
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The particular circumstances in which a speech is given, including especially an understanding of what must be done to achieve the desired effect on the audience.
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Evaluation of a speech according to the effects it produced.
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Evaluation of a speech according to its ethical execution of principles of public speaking without regard to its actual effects.
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The analytical assessment of messages that are intended to affect other people.
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