Because Marla Is So Strongly Committed to a Fat-Free Diet

question 98

Multiple Choice

Because Marla is so strongly committed to a fat-free diet, she did not see a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine that suggested that some fat in our diet is healthy.The report was contained in the newspaper that Marla reads daily, but the reason Marla did not see it is most likely the result of

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

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