COMM 243 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Active Listening, Paralanguage, Long Term Ecological Research Network
31 Jul 2018
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Lesson 7: listening: explain how listening actively differs from listening passively. pg 186. Listening - the process of making sense of others" spoken messages. Good listeners pay attention to paralanguage, facial expression, and a host of other nonverbal cues. It can be described as mindless and occurs when we react to others" messages automatically and routinely, without much mental investment. Active listening - giving careful and thoughtful attention and responses to the messages we receive. Critical listening involves evaluating and judging messages. Empathic listening involves mutual understanding and trust: describe how hearing compares with listening. pg 186. Hearing is the process in which sound waves strike the eardrum and cause vibrations that are transmitted to the brain. Listening occurs when the brain reconstructs these electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and then gives them meaning: contrast attending and understanding with responding and remembering. pg.
