Pseudolistening Examples

In the book they give an example of Pseudolistening (Wood, 2013) of students using pseudolistening in class when boredom. This really helped me understand what pseudolistening (Wood, 2013) was, I can recall many time sitting in class and being bored out of my mine and pretending to listen when in fact I was not listening. After reading this I began to think when I found myself pseudolistening (Wood, 2013). I can recall using pseudolistening (Wood, 2013) when I was at dinner with my wife’s parents, I cannot recall the conversation, I am sure it was on politics or something. I remember thinking about work, projects that I was working on or upcoming deadlines.

Monopolizing (Wood, 2013) is when you have continuously focusing on ourselves instead of listening to the person that is talking to us. I have a boss at work that is always using this method, He will come over and ask you what you are working on. You can give a simple answer like, “I am working on this website”. He will turn this around to how busy he is and has so much work to get done and not enough time. Many of us try to avoid him because these conversation can last roughly 30 to 45 minutes, this is
There are other forms of listening that come out during arguments like; Defensive listening (Wood, 2013) and Ambushing listening (Wood, 2013) but I think that selective listening (Wood, 2013) is the one that I personal use the most. When I get upset I find myself only thinking of ways that I can use what is being said by the other person against them. I am listening to what the other person is saying but I am only listening to use their own words against them. I think that I do this because I am afraid that if I give the other person the opportunity to beat me in the argument. I know that an argument is not a battle to see who will win, however when I get upset I lose the ability to think