Adapting Your Message to Your Audience,establishing Common Ground,and Using Good

question 57

Multiple Choice

Adapting your message to your audience,establishing common ground,and using good evidence are all ways of developing _____.

• A) initial credibility
• B) derived credibility
• C) terminal credibility
• D) vicarious credibility

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Definitions:

Government

The organization, or group of persons, governing an organized community, often a state or a nation.

Fighting Words

Speech intended to incite violence or likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction from the person to whom they are directed.

Unprotected Speech

Speech that is not safeguarded by the First Amendment, generally because it is considered harmful or does not serve public interest, such as defamation, obscenity, and incitement.

First Amendment

An amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.