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O affirmative O empathic O critical O appreciative Question 16 6 pts According to the lecture on the listening process, there are five steps involved in listening. One step pertains to the "attention span" of the listener, which is the period of time that a listener is able to typically exert "focus" on a message being presented. The attention spand has decreased for young adults from an average of 15 minutes to the current average of 8 minutes. In which step is this point of the attention span referenced? O Responding O Hearing (auditory processing) O Understanding Attending | Question 17 6 pts MacBook Air FS F6 F8

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Answer - Attending

Explaination-Human listening is often ineffective or does not occur for similar reasons. Receiving occurs, but attending does not.So in the step of Attention ,length of human attention span has decided for the teenagers and adults .Transient attention and Selective sustained attention in which the span of attention is varied .In Transient attention , a short-term response to a stimulus happens that temporarily attracts/distracts attention. Researchers disagree on the exact amount of human transient attention span.In Selective sustained attention, also known as focused attention, a level of attention that produces the consistent results on a task over time. Common estimates of the attention span of healthy teenagers and adults range from 10 to 20 minutes; however, there is no empirical evidence for this estimate.As per according to length of the content ,the length of attention span is increased for few minutes.