What is a listening style and how does it affect our ability to listen?
What will be an ideal response?
A listening style is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and predispositions about the how, where, when, who, and what of the information receiving and encoding process. Each listening skill emphasizes a particular set of skills that are useful in different situations. Depending on the listening style we use, we are likely to pay attention to different information contained in the message.
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birthday party as a commemoration of his life's work. Identify and explain the steps you would take in developing a strategic plan for this speech. What will be an ideal response?
Women who describe themselves as "generous, caring, and nurturing" and men who describe themselves as "ambitious, powerful, and energetic" are illustrating
a. how self-concepts may be influenced by societal expectations of femininity and masculinity. b. biological and innate differences between the sexes. c. self-fulfilling prophecies concerning innate distinctions between women and men. d. different levels of self-esteem, self-reliance, self-discipline, and self-control. e. distorted and incorrect perceptions of objective sense data related to the sexes.