Kip had researched, outlined, and practiced his speech carefully, but on the day he was to give the speech, his girlfriend broke up with him. He found it impossible to keep his mind on his speech or his audience, and continually lost his place. What reason best describes this situation? a. psychological noise b. speaker anxiety c. auditory channel deficiency d. physiological noise

a) psychological noise

Explanation:

Psychological noise is defined as type of mental interference that occurs in mind when a person tries to communicate with other people. This noise can be in form of thoughts, idea etc that act as noise.Example-sarcasm created in mind.

According to the question,Kip is experiencing psychological noise is mind. His mind is interfered with thoughts of breakup with her girlfriend and thus, he is not able to keep up with the speech and lost track.

Other options are incorrect because auditory channel, physiological noise and speaker anxiety is not experienced in the questions situation. Thus, the correct option is option(a).

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