Misconceptions about Listening
Reasons for
Poor Listening
Personal Listening
Styles
Ways to Listen and Respond
Faulty Listening Behaviors
100

Providing observable feedback to another person’s behavior or speech.

Responding

100

Person’s listening ability suffers because of a medical condition. 

Hearing Problem

100

What type of listeners are most interested in the quality of the message they hear?

Content-Oriented Listener

100

What are the three ways of listening and responding?

Informational listening

Critical listening

Empathic listening

100

True or False: Ambushing refers to a style in which the receiver listens carefully to gather information to use in an attack on the speaker?

True

200

The process wherein sound waves strike the eardrum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain.

Hearing

200

When the speaker sends out too much information to the receiver, trying to remember many verbal messages, and so on.

Message Overload

200

What kind of listener are you if you are more interested in understanding and supporting the speaker?

People-Oriented Listener

200

   _______________ listening is making sure you are receiving the same thoughts the other person is trying to convey.

Informational listening

200

Which is NOT a faulty listening behavior according to the textbook?

A)      Selective listening

B)      Egocentric Listening

C)      Ambushing

D)      Stage Hogging 

B) Egocentric Listening

300

The act of recalling previously introduced information. Recall drops off in two phases: Short term and long term.

Remembering

300

Using the time in ways that don't relate to the speaker's ideas: thinking about personal interests, daydreaming, or planning all while the speaker is speaking. 

Rapid Thought 

300

If someone wants to take care of business, what is the best listening style for them?

Action-Oriented Listener

300

State whether the following sentence is true or false.

"Critical listening is appropriate when the goal is to interpret the speaker’s message"

False

300

A style in which the receiver ignores undesirable information is an example of?

A)      Defensive listening

B)      Pseudo listening

C)       Selective listening

D)      Insulated listening

D) Insulated listening 

400

The process of focusing on certain stimuli from the environment.

Attending

400

A plane flies overhead, loud traffic, or music blaring while you’re having a conversation. These are all examples of _________. 


Physical Noise

400

What type of listening style would a successful project manager have?

Time-Oriented Listening

400

Name any three helping responses of empathic listening. 

Possible answers:

·       Advising

·       Judging

·       Analyzing

·       Questioning

·       Supporting

·       Prompting

·       Paraphrasing

400

_______ ______ use a polite façade to mask thoughts that have nothing to do with what the speaker is saying?

A)      Pseudo Listeners

B)      Defensive Listeners

C)       Insensitive Listeners

D)      Selective Listeners 

A) Pseudo Listeners 

500

The process wherein the brain reconstructs electrochemical impulses generated by hearing into representations of the original sounds and gives them meaning.

Listening

500

Dismissing others' ideas when we assume they have no value.

Faulty Assumptions 

500

What type of listeners pay particular attention to the credibility and authenticity of a speaker’s message?

Content-Oriented Listening

500

Which type of listening is also known as “evaluative listening”?

Critical listening 

500

What is selective listening?

A listening style in which the receiver responds only to messages that interest him or her. 

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