After taking cooking lessons, Thelma bakes a cake for her friend Louise’s birthday. When Louise sees the cake, she says, "Wow, t
hat’s so sweet. My mom always made a special cake for my birthday, and she would decorate it so elaborately." Thelma replies, "Well I’m sorry that I didn’t decorate the cake extravagantly. I guess I still have a lot to learn about cooking." Thelma’s response illustrates:
Defensive listening may be defined as be defined as when the person might take the innocent comment as an attack against them. This listening might cause misunderstandings between the people.
Defensive listening can create the wrong impression by the simple comments or individuals feels it as a defensive comments. The individual might get upset or depress by taking the simple comments in the negative sense. Thelma tooks the comment as defensive listening.
Not enough information is given but my mom is in the medical feild and she says that a condition common with age is presbyopia. It causes the leanses in your eye to become less flexable and less able to thicken therefore less able to focus on near by objects. Another is catteracts which I assume you already know about so I will not explain.
