COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interpersonal Communication, Cadence Skill
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Chapter 5: listening: listening: the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages, psychologically intensive, gets better with time, listening vs hearing, hearing: physiological process. Process sounds in your brain: listening: involves consciously processing what we"re hearing. Active appraisal; making sense of them: listening matters, but listening is difficult, we spend more time listening than any other activity in the world, listening is very important. Important to have something from that message lock into our heads. Especially important for longer term relationships: as we engage with communication with other people. Interpreting through denotative and connotative meanings: evaluating. Usually no gap between interpreting and evaluating, we lead right to it: can happen simultaneously, responding. What am i going to say back? . Instantly responding: doesn"t truly indicate how we truly feel about things, barriers to listening, physical/physiological. Part of the process: having to overcome a psychological barrier of boredom. Other life events; preoccupied: conflicting objectives.
