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Active listening encloses the communication attribute characterized by paying attention to a speaker for better comprehension, both in word and emotion. It is the opposite of passive listening, where a listener may be distracted or note critical points to develop a response.
Individuals who are pseudo-listening may include minimal encouragers to compensate for their non-listening, such as nodding their heads, looking at the speaker, smiling at the appropriate times, and displaying other aspects of paying attention, so it may be difficult at times to distinguish between active listening and pseudo-listening.
"Mindfulness is a way of paying attention that originated in Eastern meditation practices" [107] "Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally" [2] [note 1] "Bringing one's complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis" [2]
Transient attention is a short-term response to a stimulus that temporarily attracts or distracts attention. Researchers disagree on the exact amount of the human transient attention span, whereas selective sustained attention, also known as focused attention, is the level of attention that produces consistent results on a task over time.
written order for a bank to pay money (UK: cheque) checker one who checks (e.g. an inspector) a store or shop cashier (almost always a grocery store) (checkers) a popular board game (UK: draughts) to mark with alternating colored squares (UK: chequer) cheers (interjection) said to express gratitude, or on parting (slang). Also cheerio.
A person concentrating on their work A person paying close visual attention to their use of a bottle opener, ignoring the other people around them. Attentional control, commonly referred to as concentration, refers to an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore. [1]
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.