The document discusses poor listening styles, including spacing out and not paying attention to the speaker, pretend listening by saying things like "yeah" but not truly focusing, selective listening by only hearing parts that interest you, word listening where you focus only on the words and not other cues, and self-centered listening where you view everything from your own perspective and make judgments or give advice instead of listening.

1. Poor Listening Styles
By: Alexandria Licata

2. Spacing Out
 This is when someone is talking and the person
you are talking to is ignoring you and in their own
thoughts.

3. Pretend Listening
 This is when you aren’t paying attention but you make the
speaker think you are listening by saying comments such
as “ yeah”,” cool”, and “sounds great”.

4. Selective Listening
 This is where you only hear part of the
conversation that interest you.

5. Word Listening
 This is when we only listen to the words and not
the tone, feelings, and body language.

6. Self-centered Listening
 This is when you see everything from our point of view.
 Judging-You make judgments in your head while someone
is talking to you.
 Advising-You give advice from your experience and they
tell you how to handle it.
 Probing- You ask a lot of questions to try to dig up their
emotions for them to tell you more.