Which three words best describe listening?

___________ is the intentional focus on hearing a speaker’s message. 

In the ____________ stage of listening you are thinking critically about the message. 

Which of the following can create a listening bias against the speaker?

Does the following passage contain an argument?  “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence; consequently he is occasionally subject to a severe struggle for existence.” -Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

Standardize the argument contained in the following passage according to Govier’s strategies for standardizing arguments, adding, if necessary, implicit premises and conclusion. To the best of your ability, evaluate the argument using the ARG conditions, justifying your answers fully and following Govier’s guidelines for determining whether the argument is cogent. Suppose aliens came to earth from outer space and put us in cages and started to experiment with us, deliberately contaminating us with painful diseases to find out how soon we would die. We would complain and think they had done us a terrible wrong. Yet we do exactly this to animals less powerful than ourselves, telling ourselves that because these animals are less than human beings, what we do is all right? It’s not. The very same argument applies to both cases.

Does the following passage contain an argument? I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free people to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.    President Truman, Address to Congress, 1947

Standardize the argument contained in the following passage according to Govier’s recommendations, numbering the premises and conclusion(s), adding implicit premises and conclusion if needed. It appears that animals may be able to predict earthquakes. Prior to a major quake in China, hundreds of snakes suddenly appeared from hibernation and froze to death in the snow, fish were seen leaping from rivers and lakes, cows and horses refused to enter barns. Also, prior to a quake in Fremont, California, a flood of callers reported strange behavior from their pets and domestic animals.

Does the following passage contain an argument? The genetic modification of food is risky business. Genetic engineering can introduce unintended changes into the DNA of the food-producing organism, and these changes can be toxic to the consumer.

Does the following passage contain an argument? “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.” —John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism