CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Audiology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Terry Flynn

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Lecture 15: uhc chapter 4 - listening (october 25th, 2013) Listening and hearing are not the same thing. Hearing is a process wherein sound waves strike the eardrum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain. Listening occurs when the brain reconstructs the electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and then gives them meaning. Every kind of listening requires mental effort by the receiver. All listeners do not receive the same message. Physiological factors, personal interests and needs, and our social roles and cultural backgrounds all shape and distort the data we hear into uniquely different messages. Pseudolistening: an imitation of true listening in which the receiver"s mind is elsewhere. Selective listening: a listening style in which the receiver responds only to messages that interest him or her. Defensive listening: a response style in which the receiver perceives a speaker"s comments as an attack.