If Your Speech or Presentation Requires the Audience to Participate

question 52

Multiple Choice

If your speech or presentation requires the audience to participate in an upcoming project, you should

• A) lead people to believe that the decision will be easy to carry out.
• B) close your speech on a note of uncertainty.
• C) close your speech by explaining who is responsible for doing what.
• D) go directly to the question-and-answer session after you cover the main points of your speech.

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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Therapy

A therapeutic approach that emphasizes understanding the unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior, with roots in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Cognitive Therapy

A type of psychotherapy aimed at changing negative patterns of thinking, to alter unwanted behavior patterns and treat mood disorders.

Faulty Cognitions

Erroneous or distorted thinking patterns that can lead to maladaptive behavior and emotional responses.

Beck

Refers to Aaron T. Beck, a psychiatrist known for developing cognitive therapy, a foundational element in cognitive behavioral therapy.