Suppose That You Are Sitting in a Cafeteria, Trying to Focus

question 52

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are sitting in a cafeteria, trying to focus on a comment from a student on your left, while a student on your right is talking to a friend. This situation resembles the laboratory setup known as

• A) the Stroop task.
• B) dichotic listening.
• C) bottom-up processing.
• D) the feature-integration theory approach.

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