What Is the Relationship Between Attention and Consciousness

question 195

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between attention and consciousness?

• A)You may attend to something, or you may be conscious of it, but not both.
• B)You will be conscious only of things that you attend to.
• C)They may coexist, but you can have either one without the other.
• D)You can attend only to things that you are conscious of.

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