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Chapter Six
Intro Comm - Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| listening | the active process of making meaning out of another person's spoken message |
| hearing | the sensory process of receiving and perceiving sounds |
| attending | paying attention to someone's words well enough to understand what that person is trying to communicate |
| HURIER model | a model describing the stages of effective listening as hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, and responding |
| mnemonics | devices that can aid short- and long-term memory |
| informational listening | listening to learn |
| critical listening | listening to evaluate or analyze |
| empathetic listening | listening to experience what the speaker thinks or feels |
| noise | anything that distracts people from listening to what they wish to listen to |
| pseudolistening | pretending to listen |
| selective attention | listening only to what one wants to hear and ignoring the rest |
| information overload | the state of being overwhelmed by the enormous amount of information encountered each day |
| glazing over | daydreaming or allowing the mind to wander while another person is speaking |
| rebuttal tendency | the propensity to debate a speaker's point and formulate a reply while that person is still speaking |
| closed-mindedness | the tendency not to listen to anything with which one disagrees |
| competitive interrupting | the practice of using interruptions to take control of the conversation |
| confirmation bias | the tendency to pay attention only to information that supports one's values and beliefs, while discounting or ignoring information that does not |
| vividness effect | the tendency of dramatic, shocking events to distort one's perceptions of reality |
| skepticism | an attitude that involves raising questions or having doubts |