While Watching Entertainment Tonight, Cordelia Noticed the Show Had a Feature

question 79

Multiple Choice

While watching Entertainment Tonight, Cordelia noticed the show had a feature on Chondroitin, a drug that helps promote cartilage regeneration and healthy joints. She has taken the medicine for the last three years and is convinced the medicine is the only reason she is able to work in her yard without her joints aching like they used to. The feature began with a description of how the product works and concluded with a discussion of its potential life- threatening side effects. Cordelia called her sister to tell her how the feature supported her belief in how good the drug was for joint pain. Due to _____ , Cordelia did not remember the negative comments about Chondroitin.

• A) selective retention
• B) selective attention
• C) perceptual aggregation
• D) selective distortion
• E) information overload

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