Because Marla Was So Strongly Committed to a Fat-Free Diet,she

question 95

Multiple Choice

Because Marla was so strongly committed to a fat-free diet,she did not bother to read a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine suggesting that some fat in our diet is healthy.The report was in a newspaper that Marla reads daily,but the headline did not appeal to her as the result of

• A)selective retention.
• B)selective comprehension.
• C)selective exposure.
• D)selective perception.
• E)stimulus discrimination.

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