Chapter 5 Flashcards
Define Listening
Listening is the process of receiving, interpreting and responding to spoken and non-verbal messages.
Define Mindless listening
When we react to others’ messages automatically without mental investment
Define Mindful Listening
Give careful and thoughtful attention and responses to the messages we receive.
What are the 4 listening styles?
- Task-oriented
- Relational Listening
- Analytical listening
- Critical Listening
Define Task-oriented listening
- Concerned with efficiency and accomplishing the current task.
- Minimizes the emotional issues and concerns that are important to business and personal transactions.
Define Relational Listening
- Concerned with building relationship with others
- Might lose their detachment and ability to objectively assess information
Define Analytical Listening
- Attending to the full message before judging it.
- Wants to hear all of the details before they form an opinion
- Can be time-consuming and impractical at some times
Define Critical Listening
- Desire to evaluate the message.
- COncerned with understanding the message and assessing quality, focusing on accuracy and consistency
- Helpful when the goal is to investigate a problem, but might frustrate others some times.
What are some challenges with listening?
- Everyone interprets things differently.
Physiological, social roles, backgrounds, interest all distort the data we hear and how we interpret the message.
What are the barriers of Listening?
- Information overload
- Personal Concerns
- Rapid thought
- Noise.
Define Infomation overload
- Because we encounter speech in all aspects of our lives, it’s hard to focus on one of them from long periods of time
Define Personal Concern
- We are concerned with the messages that are most important to us.
Define Rapid Thought
- We think almost four times faster than we speak, and so we can think of other things while listening to someone talk.
Define Noise
Our environment can distract us from paying attention
Define Pseudo-Listening
Pretending to pay attention (nodding your head, making eye contact) when you aren’t actually retaining any information
Define Stage Hogging
expressing your opinions without letting others share theirs
What are some Poor Listening techniques
- Pseudo-Listening
- Stage Hogging
- Selective Listening
- Filling in the gaps
- Isolated Listening
- Defensive Listening
- Ambushing
Define Selective Listening
Responding only to the parts of a conversation that you find interesting
Define Filling in the gaps
Manufacturing information that wasn’t part of the original message
Define Isolated listening
Tuning out topics that you would rather not listen to