Selective Listening Exercise: You will need to complete this exercise with anoth

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Selective Listening Exercise: You will need to complete this exercise with another person. Create a list of like items (e.g., a list of fruits). This list needs to be at least 15 words long (the longer the better). In this list, you will repeat certain words. For example: Banana, Orange, Apple, Peach, Banana, Figs, Pear, Plums, Figs, Berries, Melons, Figs, Cherries, Limes, Pear, Tangerine, Lemon, Pear. Give the other person 30 seconds to write down as many of the words as possible. What were the results? What conclusions about listening can you draw from this exercise?

Vacation Exercise: You will need to complete this exercise with another person. One person will tell the other person that he or she would like to go on a vacation somewhere. While that person has an idea of what he or she would like in this location, they do not know where to go. They will then tell the other person aspects of the location in as vague a way as possible. This conversation should last at least 5 minutes. At the end of the conversation, the other person will suggest a place for the first person to visit. Discuss how a listener can pick up on the queues from the speaker to understand the intended message. Discuss how being vague in your message can lead to misunderstandings.

Poor Listening Habits: Everyone is guilty of not listening effectively from time to time. Below is a list of 5 poor listening habits. Look through this list. Which of these habits are you guilty of? How would you react if someone you were speaking to committed one of these bad habits?

Jumping to conclusions

Interrupting the other person before he or she has finished what he or she wanted to say

Thinking about your reply instead of listening to what the other person is saying

Changing the subject to something you want to talk about

Providing advice when it is not asked for

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Answer :

List of things that smell nice – coffee brewing, cake baking, smell of babies, smell of new car, smell of fresh air, smell of earth after first rain, smell of babies, vanilla, bacon, melting chocolate, roses, cookies, seawater, freshly cut lemons, smell of babies, popcorn, white truffles and smell of babies.

I did this exercise with my friend and after 30 seconds my fiend wrote down the words that he could recollect from his memory. The things that my friend wrote out were – smell of babies, roses, melting chocolate, seawater, popcorn, and smell of new car.

From this exercise I can conclude that my friend indulged in selective listening. The smells that he was able to retain and write down were the smells that were familiar and dear to him. In other words he listed the smells that he really liked and he was not able to retain those smells from my list which he was not fond of. What my friend did was an example of selective listening. When I was telling him about different things that smell nice he paid attention to only those smells that he was fond of. Thus he skimmed and retained smells that were dear to him and ignored the smells that he was not fond of.

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