Question

While listening to a classmate's speech, Ashley remembers that she finished the carton of milk at breakfast and creates a grocery list in her mind during the rest of her classmate’s speech. What is Ashley experiencing?

Answer 1

Answer: psychological noise

Explanation: psychological noise can be categorised into wandering thought, preconceived ideas and sarcasm.

Ashley was suffering from wandering thought. This occurs when while one is communicating, the listener's mind is wandering or is busy thinking about other things. The listener is not paying attention.

It may occur because the speaker is taking too long to finish his speech or the listener feels the information is not useful to him

Wandering thought may also occur to the speaker when his mind is not focused on his speech or he is distracted.