The Best Way to Clarify Your Main Idea in a Presentation

question 45

Multiple Choice

The best way to clarify your main idea in a presentation is to

• A) provide a lengthy handout for your audience to review during your presentation.
• B) allow your audience to gradually figure it out on their own.
• C) develop a single sentence that links your subject and purpose to your audience's frame of reference.
• D) describe it using jargon and complicated language to emphasize its importance.

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Definitions:

Machismo

A code in which challenges, abuse, and even differences of opinion must be met with fists or other weapons.

Symbolic

Use of symbols or representation to convey meaning, ideas, or concepts, which are not directly verbal or literal.

Catharsis

A dramatic release of pent-up feelings: the idea that aggressive motivation is ‘drained’ by acting against a frustrating object (or substitute), or by a vicarious experience.

Agentic State

A frame of mind thought by Milgram to characterize unquestioning obedience, in which people as agents transfer personal responsibility to the person giving orders.