Speech Survey for college! 10 questions

How does emotion effect your listening?
If I am tense or upset, I typically miss what is being said.

How does your physical environment effect your listening?
In places where it is loud, and overstimulating, I cannot focus on anything but getting away from the chaos. In a calm and slow environment, I hear it all.


Do you ever create bias between certain genders that effect your listening?
Yep. I have found that I prefer to talk with men. A Lot of the ladies I know only want to gossip, and talk about petty, vane or pointless crap, so I avoid them. I have always found good political and social debate with my guy friends.

Does your culture affect the way you listen?
I don't think its so much that, I would mainly attribute it to my family. We were not raised to be rude, my mother is a very emotionally deep, and has tried to instill some of her values into us. Ignoring, and not paying attention to someones opinion was and is considered extremely rude.


Have you shown any disinterested non-verbal facial expressions when listening?
No, I always try to be polite when having a conversation. What someone is saying (While I may not find it interesting) is important to them, so I listen and add in my opinion to show I am listing.


Does the age of the person you talk to effect you’re listening?
Yes, I prefer to talk to older more educated people. I honestly have a hard time talking to kids and teens.


When you talk to someone do they exhibit any disinterested expressions or behaviors?
My husband, and its really uncool. It seems the people you need to hear you them most are the hardest to reach. Like being comfortable with someone grants you the right to become rude, or unaware.


Which do you think effects listening the most Gender or Culture and why?
The way we are raised, (I guess that's culture) and the people we chose to emulate. The world is being raised by pop stars, video games, and TV. Gone are the days when we looked up to the intelligent, now we look up to the vane and shallow, and that's where the mind set of humanity is heading. That's who our and the next generation listens to.


During conversations what turns you off?
Being interrupted, and talking to someone who is so clueless they have no concept of what I am saying!


Any misconceptions within listening?
You don't need to talk to be heard. listening involves body language, most people cannot "hear" that type of language tho.....


Female, 23, white
 
DarrylR said:
This is a survey for my Speech class and how listening can be affected. Professor is asking us to ask people 10 questions about listening than she will correlate all the answers and send it to the person who wrote our book. Such as do you only listen just because there is a payoff in the end? Do you have a bored expression when hearing uninterested things and display facial expressions you are unaware of?

If you are going to answer please post your age/gender/race and I will not need or use your real name or username. And if you want to do the survey but keep your answers secret you can PM me your answers. Also please answer each question with a one-sentence minimum.


  • How does emotion effect your listening?
  • A=Really emotions can be controlled as can ones words, my grandfather taught me that god gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth. So I try to maximize the utilization of those ears at all times regardless of how I feel
  • How does your physical environment effect your listening?
  • A=Rather the same as above, unless I find my self in a state of emergent problem that requires my full attentions, I try to focus on the task at hand listening to the person talking to me.
  • Do you ever create bias between certain genders that effect your listening?
  • A=No, for me it is no different between the sexes as everyone has a brain and the opinion of everyone matters.
  • Does your culture affect the way you listen?
  • A=Culture what culture, in my world it does not matter where someone comes from but that they are there in front of me.
  • Have you shown any disinterested non-verbal facial expressions when listening?
  • A=I would have to say sometimes that has to happen to everyone, but, I try to tell people straight up that I really dont care to listen if I truly dont want to listen. It serves very well to shut people up.
  • Does the age of the person you talk to effect you’re listening?
  • A=Nope, my wife and I have 7 kids and one thing we have always believed is that kids are not stupid. I try to judge people based on the content and wisdom of what they are saying not how old they are or how they look.
  • When you talk to someone do they exhibit any disinterested expressions or behaviors?
  • A=Well, sort of the same as above, if I sense someone is not interested in the conversation whether by body lanuage or whatever I just cut to the chase an drop the talk.
  • Which do you think effects listening the most Gender or Culture and why?
  • A=on the surface it would be easy to say gender, but, in reality I would say that it is culture for sure. Because cultures are so forcing people to look at things from a sexist point of view.
  • During conversations what turns you off?
  • A=when others show a im better than you attitude and refuse to see both sides of the conversation
  • Any misconceptions within listening?
  • A=I dont really understand this?, but, would think misconceptions would happen for one of two reasons. 1. people tend not to say what they mean or mean what they say dam(n) the political correctness of our day! 2. people have a lack of command of the english language and use words that they think mean one thing when in reality the subtleties of linguistics becomes their downfall or the other the person listening lacks the understanding and misconstrues what is being said because of it
The last day will be Sunday at midnight, but you can keep posting and I will add on any late posts.
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and thats my 2 cents

james scott age 41, irish german descent, canadian citizen male
 
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DarrylR said:
Neeed moree!!!!!!!! Come on people!
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QUICK IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

he is going into withdrawal we gonna need an iv stat :lol:
 
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This is a survey for my Speech class and how listening can be affected. Professor is asking us to ask people 10 questions about listening than she will correlate all the answers and send it to the person who wrote our book. Such as do you only listen just because there is a payoff in the end? Do you have a bored expression when hearing uninterested things and display facial expressions you are unaware of?

If you are going to answer please post your age/gender/race and I will not need or use your real name or username. And if you want to do the survey but keep your answers secret you can PM me your answers. Also please answer each question with a one-sentence minimum.


  • How does emotion effect your listening?
  • How does your physical environment effect your listening?
  • Do you ever create bias between certain genders that effect your listening?
  • Does your culture affect the way you listen?
  • Have you shown any disinterested non-verbal facial expressions when listening?
  • Does the age of the person you talk to effect you’re listening?
  • When you talk to someone do they exhibit any disinterested expressions or behaviors?
  • Which do you think effects listening the most Gender or Culture and why?
  • During conversations what turns you off?
  • Any misconceptions within listening?
The last day will be Sunday at midnight, but you can keep posting and I will add on any late posts.
 
DarrylR said:
age/gender/race

17/M/Caucasian

  • How does emotion effect your listening? My emotions have little effect on my listening abilities. If you're talking about the presenters emotion, it effects my listening a great deal. I hate listening to people who have bland, monotone, no excitement voices.
  • How does your physical environment effect your listening? Depends, If I'm in a hospital with screaming infants, I won't be able to pay attention, If I'm in a quiet place, I listen better.
  • Do you ever create bias between certain genders that effect your listening? Not really, I listen to them the same
  • Does your culture affect the way you listen? Yes, I have been raised a nice, polite person, I listen (somewhat) intently whether It's boring or not, I take in information whenever I can
  • Have you shown any disinterested non-verbal facial expressions when listening? Sometimes, I try not to when it's really boring
  • Does the age of the person you talk to effect you’re listening? More what comes along with age, boring voice, less movement in older people. So, yes.
  • When you talk to someone do they exhibit any disinterested expressions or behaviors? Not really, I don't make to many presentations. But when I do, I make sure I have everyone laughing.
  • Which do you think effects listening the most Gender or Culture and why? Culture, if you're raised to be an incompetent jerk, you won't listen, even when there's good information to be learned
  • During conversations what turns you off? Boring subject, boring voice
  • Any misconceptions within listening? Sometimes if the person is TOO excited, or mumbling.
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COME ON YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME WITH THIS MANY MEMBERS ON THIS SITE MORE OF YOU CANT TAKE TEN MINUTES TO DO THIS SHAME SHAME SHAME
 
Just bump the thread a few times over the course of the next 3 days. I'm sure you'll get many more responses to the survey as more people see this.
 
18/Caucasian/Male

How does emotion effect your listening? If I'm feeling stressed or tired I'm less inclined to listen during a conversation. I'll either zone out completely or start thinking about whatever is bothering me instead of what the other person is saying.

How does your physical environment effect your listening? If I feel more relaxed from a comfortable environment I'll listen more attentively.

Do you ever create bias between certain genders that effect your listening? I don't think so.

Does your culture affect the way you listen? I guess if someone has a different dialect or accent I'll try to pay attention more and process more of what they say in order to understand them.

Have you shown any disinterested non-verbal facial expressions when listening? I'm sure I have at some point, but probably not to intentionally indicate that I was disinterested.

Does the age of the person you talk to effect you’re listening? I'll pay attention to what little kids say more because 1) sometimes is harder to understand what they are getting at and 2) they are more fun to listen to

When you talk to someone do they exhibit any disinterested expressions or behaviors? I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone that rude, except maybe a friend who was just joking around.

Which do you think effects listening the most Gender or Culture and why? Probably culture. If anything people tend to have more bias towards that than gender differences.

During conversations what turns you off? Self-centeredness. I cannot talk to people who only talk about themselves

Any misconceptions within listening. It's hard to break it into just speaking and listening. There's always the mental processes going on throughout an entire conversation.
 
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