CMN 1148 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cocktail Party, Ibm Officevision, Wardrobe
8 Nov 2016
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Researchers found that college students (in the past - late 70s) spend 53% of their time listening, 17% reading, 16% speaking and 14% writing. Even though things are di erent today, college students spend about the same amount of time listening - 56% listening, 17% reading, 16% speaking and 11% writing (mid 2000s) The physical process of hearing happens when the eardrum absorbs sound vibrations and send the sensations to the brain. Listening (the mental process that involves interpreting messages that other have transmitted) adds the critical dimension of making sense of the sounds that we hear. We listen in order to understand and respond appropriately to verbal or and other audible messages. Four distinct phases characterize the listening process: selecting, understanding, remembering, and responding. We select certain stimuli to ignore others in order for us to not be overwhelmed by everything (sounds, sights, smells)
