You sit toward the front of your classroom, maintain eye contact with your instructor, and nod in agreement with her remarks. However, your mind is drifting, so you are not actually focused on the content of the lecture. You are exemplifying .

The answer is Pseudo Listening

Explanation:

Pseudo listening describes a non-listening action whereby an individual appears to be paying attention to a conversation or listening to someone/something. However, the individual is not actually listening but has his mind focused on something else.

In other words, an individual who is Pseudo-listening is only pretending to be listening or paying attention to someone/something. An example is sitting in front of your doctor, maintaining eye contact with him/her and nodding in agreements to his/her recommendations when your mind is actually far off from what he/she is saying.

Such kind of listening leads to little or no retention of the information being passed because one's focus is somewhere else.  

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)