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Types of Listening
Non Listening
Listening Process
Basic Listening Facts
Breaking Barriers
100
This basic type of listening helps a person gather information or learn new vocabulary.
What is informative?
100
Pretending to listen.
What is pseudo listening?
100
The process of sounds coming into the ear.
What is hearing?
100
This is used the most in our communication skills.
What is listening?
100
This barrier breaker requires a pen and paper.
What is taking notes?
200
A coach, parent or pastor might use this type of listening.
What is relationship/therapeutic?
200
Hogging the stage to focus communication on oneself.
What is monopolizing?
200
The process of giving some type of feedback to the sender.
What is responding?
200
The average seconds a person can give his full attention to something.
What is 10-20 seconds?
200
One should suspend this in order to listen effectively to another person.
What is agenda?
300
This type of listening is used at a movie theatre or concert.
What is appreciative?
300
Perceiving personal attacks, criticisms and hostility even if none is present.
What is defensive listening?
300
The process of focusing attention on the message.
What is attending?
300
We comprehend this much of what we hear.
What is half?
300
These can be internal or external and provide numerous barriers to listening.
What are distractions?
400
This type of listening engages ethos, pathos and logos.
What is critical?
400
Listening to attack another at a weak moment.
What is ambushing?
400
The process of recalling the message and building on it.
What is remembering?
400
This type of listening requires focus, respect, attention, and selflessness.
What is active listening?
400
Using this technique will ensure that the listener has heard the message correctly.
What is paraphrasing?
500
Awareness of tone, body language and eye contact goes along with this type of listening.
What is discriminative?
500
We screen out the parts that don't interest us or make us uncomfortable.
What is selective listening?
500
The process of creating meaning in a message so one can form a response. Another word for it is decoding.
What is understanding?
500
This action is the number one reason why many people don't listen effectively.
What is talking?
500
This technique helps us understand the speaker when we put ourselves in his or her shoes.
What is empathy?