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CH 7 (Types of Listening Responses (Silent listening: staying attentive…
CH 7
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The Nature of Listening
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Important to listen well with family and friends, poor listening can lead to poor relationships becasue they feel you dont care about them.
Listening to one anothers personal narratives is fundamental to our human lives. We turn our attention to defining this skill.
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Hearing: The proccess of sound waves striking the eardrum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain.
Listening is not automatic, many times we hear, but dont listen or put it into thought. We block things out sometimes.
Mindless listening: when we react to other peoples messages automatically and routinely, without much investment.
"superficial" and "cursory" describe mindless listening better than terms such as "ponder" and "contemplate."
Mindless listening: Giving careful and thoughtful attention and responses to themessages we receive. You tend to listen mindfullly when a message is important to you.
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Components of Listening
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Attending: is a psychological one, it is hard to focus on messages even important ones when we are bombarded by information.
We would go crazy if we attended to everything that we hear, so we filter out some of them.
Understanding: is composed of several elements, first be aware of syntactic and grammatical rules of the language.
Listening fidelity; researchers use this to describe the degree of fcongruence between what a listener understands and what the message sender was attempting to communicate.
Remembering: the number of times the information is heard or repeated. how much information there is to store in the brain, and wheather the information may be "rehearsed or not"