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CO111
Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Listening | A complex process that consists of being mindful, hearing, selecting and organizing information, interpreting communication, responding, and remembering. |
| Hearing | A physiological activity that occurs when sound waves hit our eardrums. Unlike listening, it is a passive process. |
| Mindfulness | A concept from Buddhism that refers to being fully present in the moment. Being this is the first step of listening and the foundation for all others. |
| Interpretation | The subjective process of organizing and making sense of perceptions. |
| Responding | Symbolizing your interest in what is being said with observable feedback to speakers during interaction. This is the fifth of six elements in listening. |
| Remembering | The process of recalling what you have heard. This is the sixth part of listening. |
| Message overload | Occurs when we receive more messages than we can interpret, evaluate, and remember. this can interfere with effective listening. |
| Message complexity | Exists when a message is highly complex, is full of detailed information, or involves intricate reasoning. this can interfere with effective listening. |
| Environmental distractions | Occurrences in communication situations that interfere with listening. |
| Pseudolistening | Pretending to listen. |
| Monopolizing | Hogging the stage by continuously focusing communication on ourselves instead of the person who is talking. |
| Selective listening | Focusing on only selected parts of communication. We do this when we screen out parts of a message that don’t interest us or that we disagree with and when we rivet attention on parts or communication that interest us or with which we agree. |
| Defensive listening | Perceiving personal attacks, criticisms, or hostile undertones in communication when none is intended. |
| Ambushing | Listening carefully for the purpose of attacking a speaker. |
| Literal listening | Listening only to the content level of meaning and ignoring the relationship level of meaning. |
| Informational and critical listening | Listening to understand information and ideas. |
| Relationship listening | Listening to support another person or understand how another person thinks, feels, or perceives some situation, event or other phenomenon. |
| Minimal encouragers | Communication that gently invites another person to elaborate by expressing interest in hearing more. |
| Paraphrasing | A method of clarifying another’s meaning by reflecting our interpretations of their communication to them. |