Exam 3: Decoding Messages: Listening and Perception

Mindless processing is

Emily wants to persuade an audience to accept her proposal. To increase acceptance, she should do all of the following EXCEPT

In evaluating information gleaned from the World Wide Web, it is a good idea to accept what you read; if it wasn't true, it wouldn't be on the Web.

List one way you could improve each of the following: attention, interpretation, evaluation, responding, and storage and retrieval.

A cognitively complex person usually uses one or two simple constructs and ignores information that doesn't fit those constructs.

Abstract information generally captures involuntary attention more successfully than concrete information.

Scott wants to capture the attention of his audience. He should

How can speakers design messages that receivers will comprehend and accept?

Because much of our listening is mindless, we are freed up so that we can focus on the new, the unusual, and the potentially dangerous.

We can listen much faster than we can speak.

Person prototypes are:

Using schemata often makes perception easier and more efficient.

Sue has given campus tours to prospective students for so long that she knows exactly what to do next. Her knowledge of the sequence of actions involved in giving a tour is an example of

Which of the following kinds of information will be difficult to store and retrieve?

People who engage in critical listening are generally poor listeners because they are too negative and reject what others have to say.

The method that most encourages cognitive responses is

What are some of the factors that can impede message storage and retrieval?

Sue has very strong ideas about what a professor should look like. She is surprised when she meets Dr. Smith, because Smith does not look like a professor should. Smith violates one of Sue's

In order to improve attention it is a good idea to do all of the following EXCEPT

Which of the following statements is true about chronically accessible constructs?