MGTA35H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Attention Span, Critical Thinking, Abbreviation
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Hearing: sensory process in which sound waves are transmitted to the brain and someone becomes conscious of sound. Listening: a mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory. Some people better listeners because they train themselves to: focus attention, minimize distractions, process messages accurately, think critically. Want to check for accuracy: make sure you have heard and understood correctly. Enables you to provide feedback or improve on the feedback provided: feedback: verbal and nonverbal audience responses to speech; usually taken seriously by a speaker and incorporated into the speech when possible. Need to listen in order to evaluate and respond to what you hear. Listener distractions: think faster than we can listen, easy for our minds to wander. Limited attention span: attention span: the length of time a person will attend to a message without feeling distracted.
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