Listening and Nonverbal Communication

Counselors and therapists are most likely to use which type of listening?

• appreciative

• discriminative

• critical

• empathic

If you're listening to politicians debate over why they deserve your vote, you would likely be using which type of listening?

• appreciative

• discriminative

• critical

• empathic

When you pop in your ear buds during class, you are choosing to use which type of listening?

• appreciative

• discriminative

• critical

• empathic

You think you hear a mouse trapped behind your bedroom wall, but can't quite tell what it is. If you listen really hard you'd be using...

• appreciative listening

• discriminative listening

• critical listening

• empathic listening

You're friend is having a bad day and calls you just so she can "vent." In that case you'd be using...

• appreciative listening

• discriminative listening

• critical listening

• empathic listening

Listening is a learned skill

• True

• False

We listen faster than people talk.

• True

• False

Tone of voice can offer a lot of insight into how a person is actually feeling

• True

• False

Listening is a passive process while hearing is an active process.

• True

• False

Nonverbal communication means the same thing in every culture.

• True

• False