Exam 4: Individual Differences in Listening Processes

Liam looks at his watch repeatedly during his professor's lecture, an action explained because Liam is a Perceiver.

Would a person with high cognitive complexity find it more or less difficult to adjust to schema-contradictory information? Why?

Your friend comments that you acted strange during your recent surprise birthday party. She doesn't know that you had a surprise birthday party last year where people really scared you when they jumped out of hiding places and threw confetti at you. The way that you acted

Evidence suggests that no matter what listening type a person is, if he or she has a high sympathetic response, he or she will also have high empathic response.

Temperaments make you genetically programmed to act in certain ways.

Thinking and Feeling are bipolar preferences.

According to researchers, being aware of Emotional Intelligence can inform one's decision-making in what ways?

Define active-empathic listening.

A person who uses minimal and concrete descriptors to interpret a communication event is said to have low ____________________.

Communication apprehension is a learned behavior and cannot be inherited.

Levi decides he wants to purchase a home because it will be a good investment. He visits a house with a realtor and decides to place an offer. His realtor suggests that he look at more houses or do more research on the surrounding community, but Levi tells his realtor, "I just got a good feeling from this house." Levi would be best described as a(n)

Beatty and McCroskey study the relationship between interpersonal communication and__________.

Many of the researchers studying __________ suggest that communication behaviors and personality factors influence each other.

Enduring qualities that influence behavior across situations are __________.

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^®, the polar opposite of a Judger is a(n)__________.

Emotional awareness means being aware of not just your own emotions but others.

Molly smiles as she greets everyone so as to encourage people to be more sociable with her. Molly is using her smile as a(n) __________ predisposition.

Traits are likely to change based on our surroundings.

Analytical listeners have been associated with which personality type? 11

Three factors can switch one's listening style during a conversation.