Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Question 1

Active process of receiving and understanding messages received either through listening to words or by reading text

Answer 1

Listening

Question 2

Ability to selectively attend to and evaluate messages in the media

Answer 2

Media Awareness

Question 3

Six-step listening process: hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, and responding

Answer 3

HURIER

Question 4

Assumption or attitude about a person, an issue, or a topic that is made before all the facts are heard

Answer 4

Bias

Question 5

Trying to understand and make meaning of the message being given

Answer 5

Comprehensive Listening

Question 6

Listening to others by responding nonjudgmentally to their needs, either physical or emotional

Answer 6

Empathic Listening

Question 7

Outside distractions like music, TV, reading a book, looking out a window, day dreaming, growling stomach al take your attention away your focus

Answer 7

Situational Distractions

Question 8

The channel which the message is delivered obstructs our ability to receive the message clearly

Answer 8

Medium Distractions

Question 9

Triggers the inability to process and interpret messages being sent by others

Answer 9

Listening Anxiety

Question 10

Ability to remain in the present moment and fully be aware of the speaker, environment, and the message

Answer 10

Mindfulness

Question 11

Evaluating an argument or a stance and developing an opinion based on evidence

Answer 11

Critical Listening

Question 12

The physical process by which auditory stimuli enter the ears

Answer 12

Hearing