The Percentage of Viewers Watching the Conventions on Television Has

question 14

Multiple Choice

The percentage of viewers watching the conventions on television has

• A)continued to increase.
• B)continued to draw record audiences.
• C)declined steadily.
• D)dropped dramatically.
• E)remained steady the last few elections.

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Definitions:

Selective Attention

The process by which a person can focus on a specific stimulus while ignoring surrounding stimuli.

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological lack of attention that is not associated with any vision defects or deficits, in which an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight.

Change Blindness

A phenomenon where a person fails to notice significant changes in a visual scene, indicating limitations in attention and perception.

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, as when focusing on a single conversation in a noisy environment.