Attending and Focusing
What is selective attention?
Sustained Focus we choose to give to things tht are important to us.
What is scanning and choosing?
A process of taking in stimuli and choosing what to listen to and how.
What is short term memory?
When you temporarily store information.
Are stereotypes generally negative or positive?
Negative
What are physical distractions?
All the distractions in the environment that keep you from focusing on the message
What is Automatic attention?
when we listen in spite of ourselves or without effort
Name 3 examples of scanning and choosing.
Scanning social media, scanning a book, looking for the right road to turn down, searching the shelves of a grocery store, etc.
What is long term memory?
Reserved for facts, figures, and concepts that you know you must remember.
Status is devoting attention to someone you think is particularly important. True? Or false?
True
Focusing on the name of a character in a book your friend mentions, but missing the name of the book and the reason your friend told you about it is what kind of listening barrier?
Factual Distraction
What are the two ways we respond to what we hear? (Two specific words)
automatically or selectively
When scanning, how does our brain categorize what it wants to see?
It chooses what it thinks is the most important.
Repeating things, practicing, and writing concepts down are all examples of what kind of memory?
Long term
What is experiential superiority?
Looking down on others as if their experience with life were not as good as yours
What is multitasking?
Trying to do two or more tasks simultaneously
Name three examples of automatic attention.
Sirens, Dogs barking, phone alarms, doorbells, etc.
Your brain can blur out all other sounds once it picks up the one it deems most meaningful or significant. True? or False?
True.
Ex.) Someone calling out your name in a busy room
You are introduced to a young man who apparently is very rich and could possibly get you connections into getting a well-paying job. For the life of you, your brain can not remember his name. What kind of memory is this an example of?
Short term
How can you overcome barriers to listening?
Mindful Listening
(Focusing full attention on the speaker by paraphrasing, smiling, nodding, and providing other nonverbal indicators of conversational engagement)
The wandering of the mind when you are supposed to be focusing on something is what kind of listening barrier?
Mental Distraction
Why is relying too much on just attention a bad listening strategy in our personal relationships?
It can spawn defensiveness, errors, and weak engagement.
You are scanning through and choose what informational Pod-cast you want to listen to off of spotify. What type of attention are you using?
Selective Attention
The normal person can only remember about 12 things within their short term memory. True? or False?
False. On average people can only remember 7-9.
Daydreaming while your professor is lecturing is an example of what?
Pseudolistening
+Over-responding to an emotion-laden word or concept is what kind of distraction?
Semantic