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Even Young Children Are Able to Classify Objects or Events

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Even young children are able to classify objects or events that share common characteristics into the same class, such as brown dogs, but they run into problems when they have to __________.


Definitions:

Cocktail Party Effect

The brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much like when a person can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, due to the focus being elsewhere.

Information-Processing Perspective

A cognitive approach that likens the mind to a computer, focusing on how information is taken in, processed, stored, and retrieved.

Activation-Synthesis Theory

A theory proposing that dreams are the result of the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural activity during REM sleep.

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