Week 10- listening

Question 1

what are the 5 processes involved in listening?

Answer 1

1- Receive (your ears must work to receive the information)
2- Attend (pay attention to what’s being said)
3- Understanding (recognise noises)
4- Respond (if needed, reply to speaker)
5- Remember (if important, remember the necessary information)

Question 2

Listening occurs in real time: How do we do it?

Answer 2

• Take in raw speech & retain phonological representation of it in working memory.
• Organise the phonological representations into constituents, identifying content and function
• Constituents -> propositions of meaning
• Retain proposition and purge phonological representations.

Question 3

what is the probe-latency test?

Answer 3

Probe-latency: the listening was read a sentence, they were ten asked what came after ‘polite’, ‘thanked’, ‘old’ and ‘woman’.
‘The polite actor thanked the old woman who…’
The results showed that the participant quickly knew which words followed words such as ‘polite’ and ‘old’, this is because we know what to expect after these words, however after words such as ‘thanked’ which were followed by function words, it took them a lot longer to remember.