Question

As you present your speech, you notice that many of your listeners have interested looks on their faces and are nodding their heads in agreement with your ideas. According to this, these reactions by your listeners are called:______.a. interference.
b. cognitive cues.
c. feedback.
d. audience cues.
e. indicators.

Answer 1

Answer: c. feedback

Explanation: The reactions exhibited by your listeners are called feedback. In the context, feedback reactions would include those described viz: nodding of heads and having interested loos on their faces. To give feedback means to provide or to convey by means of specialized communications channel and by simple definition, feedback is the response from the listeners which include verbal and nonverbal cues to the speaker that you are paying attention.