For Most North American Audiences, the BEST Way to Determine

question 6

Multiple Choice

For most North American audiences, the BEST way to determine whether your listeners are maintaining interest in your speech is to note

• A) the amount of eye contact they have with you.
• B) how often they laugh.
• C) how often they move.
• D) the amount of noise they make.

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Definitions:

Encoding Failure

The inability to recall specific information because it was not encoded into memory effectively.

Acoustic Storage

The part of memory that holds audio information for a brief period following hearing it.

Auditory Decay

Auditory decay refers to the loss or fading of memory traces of sounds in the short-term memory over time without rehearsal.

Prospective Forgetting

Not remembering to carry out some intended action.