Talking fast is one of the ways to overcome anxiety
False
True
Dead silence from the audience still counts as feedback.
False
True
Semantic noise lives inside the listener's feelings and mood.
True
False
The receiver decodes your message through their own…
sender, message, and channel
mood, knowledge, and experience
nerves and sweaty palms
voice, face, and slides
Which one is a channel?
Your face and body
Confusing jargon
The audience's mood
Boredom and stress
Which one is a sign your body betraying and failing on you during anxiety?
sudden ability to read the room
deep breath
feeling excited
blank mind
What actually is communication?
Creating shared meaning between people
Dumping info from your brain into theirs
Picking the right channel and hitting send
Talking loudly
"Tell yourself 'I am excited' / 'I can do it'", which anxiety tool is that?
Breathe low and slow
Reframe the feeling
Focus on the message
Find friendly faces
Buzzing phone, honking traffic, a room hot enough to bake bread are examples of whichwhich noise?
physical
semantic
I have no idea
psychological
A listener who's stressed, starving, and secretly panicking about their own speech are examples of which noise?
semantic
physical
imaginary
psychological
Finish the line: "If they don't picture your idea, you didn't communicate. You only ___."
tried
talked
failed
whispered
The whole point of this course is to delete your speech anxiety completely before you perform.
True
False
You're mid‑story, everyone looks lost, so you stop and re‑explain it a different way. That live adjustment proves communication is…
semantic
shared
a process
failed
The exact same idea can come out crystal clear or total mush depending how you frame it.
True
False
"Some meaning always leaks out between your head and their ears." Communication is therefore…
one-way
semantic
imperfect
perfect