Listening

Oscar is an ADHD student. He cannot sit in a 2-hour lecture as his concentration to the lesson will only last 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, his fingers will start to fidget and his body will move left and right. He pretends to listen to the lecture by nodding his head in response to the lecturer's questions. The real fact is that he is daydreaming about a girl that he has a crush on since last semester.

• Multitasking

• Selective Listening

• Defensive Listening

• Pseudolistening

Regina never took her postgraduate classmates' ideas and opinions regarding research studies seriously as she feels they are of a lower status and less experience than her. Compared to the rest of them, she is the only PhD candidate in International Relations, while the others are pursuing their Master's Degree in the same field. Therefore, she believes that their ideas or opinions in class are not useful.

• Defensive Listening

• Experiential Superiority

• Multitasking

• Selective Listening

Wilson was intensely sharing his story about his close encounter with an unexplained phenomenon last evening to Anson and Kelvin. However, Anson was playing games on his phone and surfing the internet; Kelvin was doing a last minute assignment while texting his friend. Neither one of them were able to listen to the full details of Wilson's scary 'pontianak' story.

• Experiential Superiority

• Selective Listening

• Multitasking

• Defensive Listening

Crystal, Kelly and Sumayya are members of a students' organization to promote free education for underprivileged children. The leader of the Sunway Edu-Care organization is led by a male student named Kenneth who is well-known for his positive rapport with other students on campus. However, during the annual meeting, the girls still could not take Kenneth's speech seriously because they believe that all boys are lazy so while he was still speaking, they were communicating with each other through WhatsApp while also watching a YouTube video on their laptops. This action of doing other things by the 3 girls when Kenneth was presenting his ideas was .

• Defensive Listening

• Pseudolistening

• Multitasking

• Selective Listening

Mak Jin Weng and Lau Boon Sheng are CEOs of a fast growing car sharing app 'Hitch'. Due to their recent success, they are not taking suggestions from new interns regarding ICT as they believe that the interns have no experience in their field. The CEOs only take suggestions from business partners and those of the same ranking.

• Defensive Listening

• Experiential Superiority

• Pseudolistining

• Multitasking

Sharon was busy partying the whole night and completely forgot to submit her homework on time. This was not the first time that she procrastinated doing and handing in her assignment before the deadline. When the teacher approached her the next day about not receiving her assignment while giving her some suggestions on how she can do better next time, Sharon felt attacked. Instead of admitting her mistake, she immediately voiced out her feelings that she believed the teacher was biased.

• Multitasking

• Defensive Listening

• Pseudolistening

• Experiential Superiority