Interpersonal Communications
Unit 7 - Hearing
John Adams
October 28 & 30, 2013
Words to know -
Hearing - Hearing is the physical ability to recognize sounds.
Mindless Hearing - Hearing what is going on around you but not taking it in, engaging in it or making any sense of it.
Mindful Hearing - Giving whatever the conversation or etc is, your full undivided attention, thinking about it and trying to understand.
Non-verbal Learning Disorder - People who have troubles learning non-verbal signs.
Notes -
Mindless Hearing - Hearing what is going on around you but not taking it in, engaging in it or making any sense of it.
Mindful Hearing - Giving whatever the conversation or etc is, your full undivided attention, thinking about it and trying to understand.
Non-verbal Learning Disorder - People who have troubles learning non-verbal signs.
Notes -
- In order to understand what we are hearing, we have to give it meaning by connecting it with past experiences.
- People with more confidence listen better.
- Children from well educated and higher class families are more likely to have a larger vocabulary, more experiences to connect things to in order to understand more and have better communication skills than children from poorer, less educated families.
- The more you listen the better your all-over communication skills become.
- You tend to hear what you want to hear. Interpret things the way you want to instead of the way they were meant.
- People have the ability to hear faster than they can talk and yet they actually take in very little. Maybe when the mind is only taking in about half the wpm (words per minute) of it's capacity, we get bored and let our minds wander to other things, resulting in not really listening and understanding what the person is saying.
Exercises -
John had a list of math problems, logic, grammar etc, that he read off to us and we were supposed to write down the answers. He was illustrating that we hear what we want to hear.
Questions -
- Before Mt. Everest was discovered what was the highest mountain in the world?
- If you're in a race and you pass the person in second place what place are you in now?
- Johnny's mother had three children. The first was named April, the second was named May, what was the name of her third child?
- In the state of California you can't take a picture of a person with a disability why not?
- Which is correct; the egg yolk are white or the egg yolk is white?
- What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly? (I got to answer this one :)
- How much dirt is in a hole 2' x 3' x 4'?
- If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 in a different field and he combines them both in another field how many haystacks does he have?
- If it takes three people to dig a hole, how many people does it take to dig half of a hole?
Answers -
- Mt. Everest
- 2nd place
- Johnny
- You can't use a disability to take a picture, you take a picture with a camera
- Egg yolks aren't white
- "Incorrectly"
- There is no dirt in a hole
- He combined the haystacks so only 1
- There's no such thing as half of a hole, a hole is a hole.
As one of the final exercises, he asked us the following and we were supposed to give each a percentage so that all together they added up to 100%.
How much time do college students devote to communication?
Between the students they decided this -
Writing - 15%
Reading - 15%
Speaking - 50%
Listening - 20%
He then showed us what the studies said about it -
Writing - 11.4%
Reading - 17.1%
Speaking - 16.1%
Listening - 55.4%
Discussion Questions -
1) In most college classes, students tend to mindlessly listen to what is going on. At times, however, students suddenly switch to mindful listening when they think something important is taking place. How do you know when to switch from mindless listening to mindful listening?
2) Do most people actually suffer from information overload or is this just an excuse for not paying attention? Explain.
3) What are some verbal and non-verbal clues that tip you off whether a person is sincerely listening or just playing like he or she is listening?
4) Many people today are into multitasking. Can most people really give sufficient attention to more than one thing at a time? Explain.
5) What noise (distractions) do you find the most disturbing in your college classes that make it difficult to pay attention?
1) In most college classes, students tend to mindlessly listen to what is going on. At times, however, students suddenly switch to mindful listening when they think something important is taking place. How do you know when to switch from mindless listening to mindful listening?
2) Do most people actually suffer from information overload or is this just an excuse for not paying attention? Explain.
3) What are some verbal and non-verbal clues that tip you off whether a person is sincerely listening or just playing like he or she is listening?
4) Many people today are into multitasking. Can most people really give sufficient attention to more than one thing at a time? Explain.
5) What noise (distractions) do you find the most disturbing in your college classes that make it difficult to pay attention?
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