Inflammatory skin disease commonly manifests as itchy, scaly skin, with patches of hair loss. Dogs can exhibit crusty lesions and in severe cases will develop a secondary bacterial infection. Depending on the severity and progression of the disease, treatment can be extensive and costly.
Informational listening entails listening with the goal of comprehending and retaining information. This type of listening is not evaluative and is common in teaching and learning contexts ranging from a student listening to an informative speech to an out-of-towner listening to directions to the nearest gas station.
Through the years, numerous definitions of listening have been proposed. Perhaps the most useful one defines listening as the process of receiving, attending, and understanding auditory messages; that is, messages transmitted through the medium of sound. Often, the steps of responding and remembering are also included. The process might be diagrammed as shown in figure 1.