Listen Up! Parts 1-3

According to Valdes, which level of listening finds us emotionally and mentally detached from the speaker and placing minimal value on the speaker? Hint: From Listen Up 1

• Hearing words

• Listening in spurts

• Empathetic listening

• Pathetic Listening

In which type of listening are you as a listener giving 51% of the effort of the communication between you and the speaker? Hint: Listen up 1

• Hearing words

• Listening in spurts

• Empathetic listening

• Pathetic listening

The author claims that hearing is to listening as seeing is to______. Hint: Lesson 1

• Watching

• Reading

• Tasting

• Saying

Which of these statements best explains " the overlooked emphasis of listening"? Hint: Lesson 1

• You might be surprised how much we are required to listen in the course of an average day.

• Reading often receives between six and eight years of formal instruction, yet only accounts for 16% of our communication.

• Listening, however, often receives less than half-year of formal training, yet it makes up 45% of our daily communication

• It would seem that the myth of hearing and listening being equal has deeply permeated our culture.

Which of the following should be considered regarding the author's credibility on the subject of listening. Hint: Lesson 1

• The author earned his bachelor's degree in rhetoric and communications

• The author took a college course titled "Listening"

• The author took AP English Language and Composition

• All of the above

Which level of listening are we operating on when we eagerly search for the next opportunity to chime in with what we have to say rather than focus on what the speaker is sharing?

• Hearing Words

• Listening in Spurts

• Empathetic Listening

• Pathetic Listening

When the speaker is wearing something really distracting or speaks with a different accent or seems boring, the listener gets a pass and can zone out.

• True

• False

According to Valdes, what is often at the root of our interrupting the speaker?

• Our ego; we think what we have to say is more important.

• a sense of justice; we want things to be right

• distraction; we weren't listening for the natural pause

Should listening be passive or active?

• Passive

• Active

• Neither

• Both

Choose the technique that best matches the summarized description.

Consider new viewpoints and ideas. Avoid defensiveness. Every opinion we encounter while listening is a hypothesis that we can examine. 

• Learning to adapt to the speaker's appearance, personality, and delivery

• Curb and overcome distractions

• Determine the concepts and central ideas of the message

• Listen with an open mind