Being biracial
I. Chapter 6
a. Introduction
i. What is listening? Cognitive activity, the active process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken or nonverbal messages. ii. What is hearing? Passive physiological process in which sound is received by the ear. iii. How are listening and hearing different? Listening is cognitive while hearing is physical.
b. The Importance of Effective Listening
i. How much of a college student’s time is spent listening? 50% or more.
c. Effective Listening
i. Name and describe the 7 stages of effective listening 1) Hearing stage= accurate reception of sounds requires the listener to focus attention on the speaker, discriminate among sounds, and concentrate. 2) Understanding stage= comprehension of info and ability to accurately follow directions is one of the measures we can use to understand what we hear. 3) Remembering stage= recalling something from your memory. 4) Thinking stage= processing of information. 5) Interpreting stage= making sense of the information received. 6) Evaluating stage= analyzes evidence, sorts facts from opinion, determines the intent from the speaker, judges the accuracy of the speaker’s statements and conclusion’s and judges the accuracy of personal conclusions. 7) Responding stage: sending feedback= receiver who has listened to a message can connect with the sender by verbally or nonverbally verifying the message’s reception or indicating a lack of reception. ii. How is comprehension related to effective listening, and in which stage is it important? Because we need to comprehend by listening in effectively to understand our intake of info, understanding stage. iii. What does it mean that “The way we think affects both what and how we think”? it means that the way we think can alter how the outcome of our thought will be. iv. What are the two brain hemispheres responsible for? The left brain is the logical brain responsible for words, logic, numbers, analysis, lists, linearity
a. Introduction
i. What is listening? Cognitive activity, the active process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken or nonverbal messages. ii. What is hearing? Passive physiological process in which sound is received by the ear. iii. How are listening and hearing different? Listening is cognitive while hearing is physical.
b. The Importance of Effective Listening
i. How much of a college student’s time is spent listening? 50% or more.
c. Effective Listening
i. Name and describe the 7 stages of effective listening 1) Hearing stage= accurate reception of sounds requires the listener to focus attention on the speaker, discriminate among sounds, and concentrate. 2) Understanding stage= comprehension of info and ability to accurately follow directions is one of the measures we can use to understand what we hear. 3) Remembering stage= recalling something from your memory. 4) Thinking stage= processing of information. 5) Interpreting stage= making sense of the information received. 6) Evaluating stage= analyzes evidence, sorts facts from opinion, determines the intent from the speaker, judges the accuracy of the speaker’s statements and conclusion’s and judges the accuracy of personal conclusions. 7) Responding stage: sending feedback= receiver who has listened to a message can connect with the sender by verbally or nonverbally verifying the message’s reception or indicating a lack of reception. ii. How is comprehension related to effective listening, and in which stage is it important? Because we need to comprehend by listening in effectively to understand our intake of info, understanding stage. iii. What does it mean that “The way we think affects both what and how we think”? it means that the way we think can alter how the outcome of our thought will be. iv. What are the two brain hemispheres responsible for? The left brain is the logical brain responsible for words, logic, numbers, analysis, lists, linearity