You Are Trying to Concentrate During an Examination but You

question 14

Multiple Choice

You are trying to concentrate during an examination but you get distracted by the sound of another student tapping her pencil on her desk. Which of the following stages of the information processing model are you in?

• A)Selective attention/comprehension
• B)Encoding and simplification
• C)Storage and retention
• D)Retrieval and response
• E)Recognition

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