Quizlet Listening

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  1. Action Oriented: brief, error free, well organized information
  2. Active Listening: interactive process of responding mentally, verbally, and nonverbally to a speaker's message
  3. Attending: focus on sound
  4. Confirming Response: Statement that causes another person to value himself/herself more
  5. Conscious Competence: aware you know something and applying not a habit
  6. Conscious Incompetence: conscious of inabilities and working towarsd improvement
  7. Content Oriented: detailed and complex information
  8. Conversational Narcissism: self agenda and self absorbed in conversation
  9. Critical Listening: listening to evaluate and asses the quality, appropriateness, value, or importance of info
  10. Disconfirming Response: statement that causes another person to value himself/herself less
  11. Emotional Noise: form of communication intereference caused by emotional arousal
  12. Empathy: feeling what someone else is feeling
  13. Fact: observed and proven true
  14. Hearing: psychological process of decoding sounds
  15. Inference: conclusion based on speculation
  16. Information Triage: process of evaluating info to sort good information from less useful or valid info
  17. Listening: complex process of selecting, attending to, constructing meaning from, remembering, responding to NV and V msgs
  18. Listening Style: preferred way of making sense out of the spoken messages you hear
  19. Paraphrase: check accuracy of your understanding
  20. People Oriented: comfortable listening to people and their feelings and emotions
  21. Referent: thing a symbol represents
  22. Remebering: Recalling info
  23. Responding: let them know you understand their message
  24. Second Guessing: questioning the speaker
  25. Selecting: choosing a sound as you sort through the various sounds competing for your attention
  26. Symbol: word, symbol, visual device represents image, sound, concept, experience
  27. symbolic interaction theory: theory that members of society are bound together by use of symbols
  28. Sympathy: Acknowledgement that someone is feeling bad
  29. Thought: mental process of creating an image, sound, concept, experience triggered by a referent or symbol
  30. Time Oriented: aware of time during conversation
  31. Unconscious Competence: second nature
  32. Unconscious Incompetence: unconscious of inability to properly conduct conversation
  33. Understanding: assigning meanings to the sounds you select and to which you attend