Here are suggested answers to the Definitions items in this chapter of the Online Learning Center website.

1. A strategic response is Rost’s term for an effective listener act in a collaborative setting which includes providing cues, prompts, etc., to help the speaker carry out the discourse.
2. Gambits are set phrases that qualify as strategic responses in that they serve as comprehension checks and help keep the interaction going.
3. After reading this chapter, I would now define the act of listening as a psycholinguistic act that can be collaborative or non-collaborative, but that is always communicative in nature. Listeners are active in both perceiving sounds, assigning them meaning, and so forth.