Research Catalog

Title

Listening behavior : measurement and application / Robert N. Bostrom with special contributions by Mary Helen Brown [and others].

Author

Bostrom, Robert N.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, ©1990.

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Details

Description

xii, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book marks the beginning of a specific research enterprise, and is dedicated to the idea that nothing is more important than understanding the way we perceive, process, remember, and understand oral messages. It examines specific functions of listening and explores them in considerable detail.

Subject

• Listening
• Auditory perception
• Communication
• Misinformation
• Auditory Perception
• Communication
• Auditory perception
• Listening
• Hören
• Zuhören
• Audiometrie
• Psychologische Diagnostik

Genre/Form

Kentucky comprehensive listening test.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-228).

Contents

Conceptual approaches to listening behavior -- Measuring individual differences in listening -- Encoding, media, affect, and gender -- Listening, communicative skill, and attitudes about communication -- Semantic decoding -- Short-term storage, sensation seeking, and recall of information -- Making sense of data: constructs, schemas, and concepts -- Affecting responses in listening: a meta-analysis of receiver apprehension outcomes -- Listening in the organizational context -- Listening to medical messages: the relationship of physical gender, patient gender, and seriousness of illness on short-and long-term recall -- Differences in motivational levels and performance on various listening tasks -- Listening for deception: the effects of medium on accuracy of detention -- Listening and the mass media.

ISBN

• 0898623979
• 9780898623970

LCCN

89023472

OCLC

• ocm20318342
• 20318342
• SCSB-1744841

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library