What Is the Primary Responsibility of the Secretary of Defense

question 25

Multiple Choice

What is the primary responsibility of the secretary of defense?

• A)homeland security
• B)military policy
• C)domestic security
• D)commander in chief of the armed forces

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Definitions:

Cocktail Party Effect

This describes the human ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when listening to a single conversation in a crowded room.

Change Blindness

A perceptual phenomenon where a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer.

Sequential Processing

A method of processing information in a linear, ordered manner, where one step follows another in a sequence.

Parallel Processing

Parallel processing is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality. It's a part of the human information processing system that allows for complex multitasking.