Receiving stage
(noun)
The first stage of the listening process, which involves hearing and attending.
Examples of Receiving stage in the following topics:
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The Receiving Stage
- The first stage of the listening process is the receiving stage, which involves hearing and attending.
- The first stage of the listening process is the receiving stage, which involves hearing and attending.
- Paired with hearing, attending is the other half of the receiving stage in the listening process.
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The Evaluating Stage
- The evaluating stage is the listening stage during which the listener critically assesses the information she's received from the speaker.
- This stage of the listening process is the one during which the listener assesses the information she's received, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- During the evaluating stage, the listener determines whether or not the information she's heard and understood from the speaker is well constructed or disorganized, biased or unbiased, true or false, significant or insignificant.
- The evaluating stage occurs most effectively once the listener fully understands what the speaker is trying to say.
- This stage of critical analysis is important for a listener in terms of how what she's heard will affect her own ideas, decisions, actions, and/or beliefs.
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The Importance of Listening
- The listening process involves five stages: receiving, understanding, evaluating, remembering, and responding.
- These stages will be discussed in more detail in later sections.
- Basically, an effective listener must hear and identify the speech sounds directed toward them, understand the message of those sounds, critically evaluate or assess that message, remember what's been said, and respond (either verbally or nonverbally) to information they've received.
- Effectively engaging with all five stages of the listening process lets us best gather the information we need from the world around us.
- Define active listening and list the five stages of the listening process
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The Understanding Stage
- The understanding stage is the stage during which the listener determines the context and meanings of the words that are heard.
- The second stage in the listening process is the understanding stage.
- This is the stage during which the listener determines the context and meanings of the words he or she hears.
- After receiving information via listening, the next step is understanding what we've heard.
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The Responding Stage
- The responding stage is when the listener provides verbal and/or nonverbal reactions to what she hears.
- The responding stage is the stage of the listening process wherein the listener provides verbal and/or nonverbal reactions based on short- or long-term memory.
- Following the remembering stage, a listener can respond to what she hears either verbally or non-verbally.
- Responding verbally might involve asking a question, requesting additional information, redirecting or changing the focus of a conversation, cutting off a speaker, or repeating what a speaker has said back to her in order to verify that the received message matches the intended message.
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The Remembering Stage
- The remembering stage occurs as the listener categorizes and retains the information she's gathering from the speaker.
- In the listening process, the remembering stage occurs as the listener categorizes and retains the information she's gathered from the speaker for future access.
- Using information immediately after receiving it enhances information retention and lessens the forgetting curve, or the rate at which we no longer retain information in our memory.
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Noise and Interference
- Noise and interference can block your audience's ability to receive your message.
- Noise and interference block the sending or receiving of a message.
- When it comes to public speaking, noise and interference can be a major issue for both you as message sending and for your audience as your message receivers.
- Internal noise and interference can be particularly challenging, since this often refers to the internal monologue you might be telling yourself before you get up on stage to speak: "I'm not good enough.
- Noise exists at all levels of communication and thus, no message is received exactly as the sender intends (despite his or her best efforts) because of the ever-presence of noise in communication.
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Analogies
- To build trust and credibility on stage, speakers repeatedly link their main topic or argument to the values, beliefs, and knowledge of their audience.
- Analogies that begin with phrases including "like," "so on," and "as if" rely on an analogical understanding by the receiver of a message that includes such phrases.
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Feeling Anxiety Is Normal
- Right before you walk out onto the stage, you may feel full-fledged fear.
- Practicing in front of others and receiving helpful feedback for improving your speech
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The Speech of Presentation or Acceptance
- Even if you are one of many in a field of nominees, it's always a good idea to prepare an acceptance speech so that if you are named the winner, you won't be fumbling for your words on stage.
- The speech of presentation is one that is particularly enjoyable to give, as the awardee is often honored to have received the award in the first place!