The Cocktail Party Effect and the Technique of Shadowing Demonstrate

question 206

Multiple Choice

The cocktail party effect and the technique of shadowing demonstrate that

• A)information we have filtered out of our attention is still being processed at some unconscious level.
• B)individual pathways of sense receptors are not cross-modal in their processing.
• C)selective attention only allows us to process one channel of input at a time.
• D)we constantly engage in dichotic listening and attend to more than one message equally.

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