Which of the Following Statements Is True About Taking a Public

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true about taking a public speaking course?

• A)students who take a public speaking course will have their fears of public speaking decrease.
• B)public speaking will help fine-tune your verbal skills but not your nonverbal skills.
• C)oral communication skills are not rated highly upon graduation by college graduates.
• D)public speaking is not a course that will help you develop your critical thinking skills.
• E)public speaking is important for the business world but not for religious figures.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become conditioned by being paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

UCS

Unconditioned Stimulus; a stimulus that triggers a naturally occurring response without the need for prior learning.

Flavor Aversion Conditioning

A learning process in which an organism learns to avoid a particular taste because it has been associated with a negative reaction, such as nausea or discomfort.

Temporal Conditioning

A technique in which the presentation of the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) at regular intervals causes the internal state present at the time of the UCS to become able to elicit the conditioned response (CR).