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Hearing vs listening examples9/10/2023 ![]() Listening is a secondary and temporary process: We can't stop it irrespective of our individual wish or choice. If one is within the range of any propagating sound, then he is bound to hear it no matter what his choice is.įor an instance, when it thunders we hear an unstoppable loud rumbling noise coming from the sky. In simple words, an individual has no choice regarding volunteering or not, to hear. Hearing is done involuntarily by every individual. In other words, here, a person volunteers (takes a part), chooses or decides whether to or not to listen to something and for how long (time).įor example, we turn on a radio for some time and later turn it off when we lose interest to listen. Listening is done voluntarily by a person. In hearing, we neither pay any close attention nor put any mental efforts to figure out what we hear. ![]() In listening, we pay close attention and put focused mental efforts to derive the meaning of a kind of sound we have decided to listen. The point at which we get fully aware of what we hear, the process of hearing becomes listening. The moment we stop paying any further attention to what we hear the process of listening again becomes hearing. We are compelled to hear all present sounds altogether. Here, we neither focus on a particular sound nor filter out any unwanted sounds. In listening we are selective and focus only on some wanted sounds and filter out (ignore) other unwanted sounds. To hear or not to isn't within our choice or preference. We hear because we neither have a full awareness nor any control over it. We listen because we feel certain sounds are important to gain knowledge, receive useful information and are, therefore, worth listening. We hear sounds irrespective of whether we like or dislike them. We are only capable to hear all those sounds that fall within the human audible range of 20 Hz to 20 Khz. In the hearing process, may types of sounds fall on our ears, but we are not entirely aware of what we hear. In the listening process, we first focus our attention on a particular form or type of sounds (like speech, music, etc.) we are interested in and then try to deduce its meaning. Here, we don’t try to make a meaningful understanding because if we do so it becomes a listening process. On the contrary, hearing begins before we listen when sound is subconsciously detected on our eardrums. Listening starts after hearing when we begin to select a particular type of sound, focus on it and make an interpretation out of it. Hearing involves only the working of audio sensing eardrums subconscious functioning as a sound detecting bodily organ. Listening involves simultaneous operation of: It implies it is one of the biological mechanisms involved in the functioning of a human body. It means it relates to a conscious mind or mental phenomena. Now let's compare listening and hearing on the above fourteen points. ![]() Following points distinguish hearing and listening:
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