What is a complex process of selecting, attending to, creating meaning from, remembering, and responding to verbal and non-verbal messages?
What is listening?
100
How do you counter prejudice as a listener?
What is keep focus on the message rather than the messenger?
100
Other than your ears, what can you listen with to be attuned to the unspoken cues of a speaker?
What are your eyes?
100
Define a conclusion based on partial information or an evaluation that has not been directly observed
What is an inference?
100
Who is the most important critic of your speeches?
Who is you?
200
What is the first stage of listening?
What is select?
200
How do you ensure you are speaking at the right rate?
What is be aware of the listeners' tendency to stop paying attention?
200
What are preferred ways of making sense out of spoken messages defined as?
What are listening styles?
200
Define the mental process of making judgements about the conclusions that are presented in what you see, hear, and read?
What is critical thinking?
200
Name an effective rhetorical strategy
What is eye contact, voice projection, energy, or preparedness?
300
What is the average attention span while listening to someone talk?
What is eight seconds?
300
How do you keep the audience's attention as a speaker?
What is use good eye contact, vocal variation and hand gestures?
300
What are the essential steps to listening empathetically?
What are stop, look, listen, imagine, and check?
300
What is the goal as a critical thinker/listener?
What is to evaluate information and make a choice?
300
The process of using a method to evaluate the effectiveness of a speech is known as what?
What is rhetorical criticism?
400
What is the average number of words heard each year?
What is one billion?
400
How do you stay focused as a listener?
What is be aware of distractions and daydreams in order to keep them out?
400
What should good listeners focus on when it comes to the speaker?
What is the speaker's message (not his/her delivery style)?
400
What is another form of evidence that a speaker might use to convince you other than facts, examples, or statistics?
What is an opinion?
400
What are the two fundamental goals of a good speech?
What is the speech should be effective and ethical?
500
What is the final stage of the listening process?
What is respond?
500
What is receiver apprehension?
What is the fear of misunderstanding messages from others?
500
What are 3 of the 5 things listed in the textbook that good listeners do?
What are put their own thoughts aside; are present mentally as well as physically; make a conscious, mindful effort to listen; invest time in listening, patiently letting the speaker make his/her point; and are open-minded?
500
What does an effective critical listener listen for other than just evidence?
What is the overall structure of the logic, or argument, a speaker uses to reach a conclusion?
500
Name 3 of the 6 things to do when providing feedback
What is be descriptive, specific, positive, constructive, sensitive, or realistic?