Ch 16-17 - Active Listening/Reading

You should provide feedback by ____.

• asking questions and giving comments

• nodding your head and smiling while people are talking

• raising your hand before asking a question

• appearing confident and prepared

Active reading requires that you do all of the following except _____.

• consider the writer’s purpose

• consider your purpose for reading

• ignore prior knowledge

• evaluate what you read

What reading approach is used when finding a word in a dictionary?

• read for detail

• scan

• preread

• skim

Which reading technique helps to comprehend what you have read?

• preread

• skim

• scan

• read for detail

When should you evaluate what you read?

• As you are reading.

• After you finish reading.

• Both as you are reading and after you finish reading.

To avoid giving a direct answer is to be ______.

• evasive

• passive

• inferential

• deliberate

Casually listening to someone talk with limited mind engagement is ______.

• active listening

• passive listening

• empathetic listening

• skepticism

Often beneficial in controlled amounts, a degree of doubt or uncertainty about the validity (truthfulness) of a message is ______.

• rapport

• empathy

• skepticism

• hearing

The experience and information a person already possesses is known as ______.

• inferential information

• bias

• skepticism

• prior knowledge

______ is described as the physical process of the body identifying sounds in the environment.

• active listening

• passive listening

• hearing

• smelling