Explain the Role of Working Memory in the Listening Process

question 19

Essay

Explain the role of working memory in the listening process.

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Definitions:

Impression Management

The process through which individuals attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object, or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction.

Prescriptive Norms

Social rules that dictate what behavior is expected or appropriate within a community or society.

Proscriptive Norms

Social rules that dictate what behaviors are forbidden or discouraged within a society or group.

Ethnomethodology

A sociological approach that studies the way people make sense of their everyday world, emphasizing the methods and practices individuals use to constitute their social realities.