COMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Active Listening, Critical Thinking

• School: Ohio University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 1010
• Professor: Silcott

Document Summary

Listening and critical thinking hearing the act of receiving sound listening the active process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages. Hearing is a ______ process, and listening is a ______ process physical; mental. Which of the following statements is true? when communicating, college students spend over half their lives listening. After your brain has sorted sound waves by importance, it processes the material in a part of your consciousness termed: working memory. When you are listening and attempting to understand the other person"s worldview, what type of listening are you utilizing? empathic. If you are thinking about what happened last weekend at college while listening to your mother on the phone, you are exhibiting what type of barrier to listening? mental distraction. Which gender tends to listen in order to solve problems, is less attentive to nonverbal cues, and interrupts to switch topics? men.