listening

What is an important use of body language and active listening?

• to show you are listening
• to encourage the person to talk
• to see how the speaker is feeling
• all of these

Why do you need to use your eyes when actively listening?

• you don't
• to observe the speaker's body language
• to make the speaker think you are tuned in
• none of these

What is the first step to active listening?

• grunt and nod
• ask questions
• look at the speaker
• give feedback

What is cognitive dissonance?

• avoiding distractions that interrupt your listening

• Evaluating and interpreting words

• The feelings of discomfort that result from holding two conflicting beliefs

• Discovering meaning in information by reflection

What is personal knowledge?

• The process of using information to make it personal

• The process of using information to make it meaningful

• Creating ideas of your own from information

• Taking in auditory stimuli

What is listening?

• A process of understanding what you hear

• Taking in auditory stimuli, holding it in memory, and understanding

• personal meaningful knowledge

• Gathering information

In the GATHERING piece of learning you are...

• examining new information

• testing newly learned information

• converting comprehension into ideas

• getting information by memory principles

Which of the following are the 4 pillars of human learning?

• gathering, analyzing, creating, and acting

• gathering, analyzing, comprehending, and understanding

• gathering, analyzing, learning, and teaching

• gathering, agonizing, compounding, and assaulting

Which of the following is something you should do before listening?

• Think ahead, anticipate what is going to be said

• Look for cues from your teacher

• Prepare ahead of time by reading the chapter or notes

• Review as soon as possible

Which of the following is an effective note taking technique?

• restate what is being said in your own words

• use abbreviations as much as possible

• Try not to take notes in paragraph form

• Use stars, highlight, and capital letters for important facts