Speakers Who Overpower Their Messages with Computerized Slide Shows Often

question 27

Multiple Choice

Speakers who overpower their messages with computerized slide shows often do more harm than good, succombing to _____________________.

• A) "LCD tunnel vision"
• B) "Acrobat overload"
• C) "death by PowerPoint"
• D) "the Keynote crutch"

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Definitions:

Conditioning

An approach to modifying behavior by teaching a subject to connect a favorable behavior with a stimulus that was initially unrelated.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual decrease and eventual elimination of a conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a conditioned response.