Definitions
Type of Listening
Type of Audience
100
What is passive listening?
When you think the person talking is the more important one, and you start to get distracted.
100
Listening for pleasure or enjoyment.
Appreciative listening
100
Captive Audience
Audience that is forced to attend.
200
What does it mean to "stack the deck?"
giving only one side of a person's story.
200
Emphatic Listening
Listening to a friend or loved one without judgement or objection.
200
Supportive Audience
Audience that already supports you.
300
What is a filter?
some sort of a barrier between you and the other person.
300
Single out one particular sound from a loud environment.
Discriminative listening.
300
Opposed Audience
Audience that is against your cause.
400
What is a "false comparison"?
Comparing things the wrong way.
400
Critical Listening
Listening to analyze or to judge something.
500
What is name calling?
giving someone a negative label without any evidence.
500
What is active listening?
Actively participating in a conversation, and actually listening to what someone has to say about a situation.
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