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Term | Definition |
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Myths about Listening | Hearing is the same as listening (you hear but don’t comprehend), Listening is natural and effortless (it’s a practiced skill), All listeners hear the same message (up to interpretation) |
Nature of Listening | listening is the active process of making meaning out of another person’s spoken message |
Listening Styles | habitual pattern of listening behavior that represents different goals for listening |
Relational Style | to build relationships, extroverts |
Task-Oriented Style | only wants main points to minimize time to act |
Critical Style | intellectual challenging for the party: think deeply about data & evidence |
Analytical Style | neutral observer of all sides of the issue, without judgement until they know all sides of information; Switzerland |
HURIER model: stages of effective listening | Hearing Understanding Remembering Interpreting Evaluating Responding |
Hearing | gathering information, aural stimuli |
Barriers to effective listening (noise): | anything that distracts us from listening to what we wish to listen to |
Physical noise | loud things from environment |
Psychological noise | mental thoughts and processing |
Responding | communicating your attention and understanding to others through various forms of feedback |
Backchanneling | verbal or nonverbal responses that one can give without interrupting the speaking party |
Paraphrasing | rephrase something in our own words to avoid misunderstandings |
Empathizing | agreeing with the person’s feelings |
Supporting | agreeing with the person’s opinion and ideas |
Analyzing | crafting a response depending on the situation and person |
Advising | recommending solutions and advises |
Ways of Listening | Information listening (for new information), Critical listening (carefully evaluating information and judging it), Empathic listening (to provide comfort and support to the speaker) |
Pseudo-listening: | pretending to listen but not actually listening |
Selective Attention | listening to what you want to listen to (name, material on test) |
Information Overload | receiving too much information or stimulus at a time |
Glazing Over | mind stops paying attention for a moment, daydreaming |
Rebuttal Tendency | preparing a rebuttal to the argument instead of hearing the response |
Narcissistic Listening | listening for an opportunity to talk about themselves |
Emotions | the body’s multidimensional response to any event that enhances or inhibits a person’s goals |
Subjective experiences | emotions vary by person |
Valenced experiences | negative or positive emotion |
Physiological arousal | body’s response outside of your control: shaking, crying, red face |
Cognitive – thought interruption | other thoughts that takes over the brain, priority based |
Behavioral expression | gestures, postures, mannerisms |
Adaptive response | emotions changes base on situation |
Moods | downgrading and holding that emotion for a LONG time, LOW intensity (anger) |
Feelings | fleeting emotion that last a SHORT time, stimulus usually is not directly related to you |
How Are Emotions Displayed? | Kinesic cues (postures, gestures), Affect displays (facial expressions specific to emotion) |
Cognitive Appraisal Theory | how you think about a situation can influence how you feel about it |
Emotional reactions | Situational (emotions change depending on situation), Vary from person to person |
Steps of the emotional reaction process | Emotional stimulus (situation, context), Appraisal of the stimulus (thinking about the situation), Experience of the emotion (you feel the emotion), Behavioral response/action (you act upon it) |
Appraisal | an individual’s assessment of a particular situation, varies from person to person |
Common appraisals | Attribution (internal: personal character, and external: something happened), Attention (priority based) |
Appraisal determines the emotion experienced (cause and effect) | loss -> sadness, wronged/goal hindrance -> angry, goal achievement -> happiness, danger/threat -> fear |
For every particular emotion, there is a typical behavioral response or action | sadness -> protest that lost, anger -> hurt the target, happiness -> continued enjoyment of situation (replay, retell), fear -> freeze or flee |
Reappraisal | strategy to change the way you think about a situation to decrease emotional experience (make emotions positive) |
How to reappraise: | Think about emotional situation in a non-emotional term, I feel vs. I think |
Suppression | strategy to change the way you express an emotion that is felt (minimizing behavioral response) |
How to suppress: | Breathing exercises, Simulation: pretend you’re not feeling an emotion by presenting another emotion |
attention focus | don't pay attention to certain things |
deactivation | becoming numb to the world around us, removing themselves from society |