Listening: retaining and recalling information
Listening: retaining and recalling information
The next ice breaker focuses on listening skills with the aim of retaining and recalling the information when required. Retention is the minds ability to take in and bank information. Recall is the process of selecting from the store the specific piece of information we need at a particular moment.
Try out your skills by reading the following list word by word (do not go back over them)
Load
Foot
After
The
Of
Right
When
Same
Of
Metre
And
Micky Mouse
Of
Age
Head
The
Hoot
Of
Check
Today
Without looking back, answer the following questions
- How many of the first five words can you recall?
- How many of the last five words can you recall?
- Can you remember repeated words?
- Can you remember a word or a group that was different?
- What other words can you recall?
Consider what you remembered and how you did this.