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Selective Attention Is Necessary to Reduce the Amount of Information

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Selective attention is necessary to reduce the amount of information coming in from the external world.However,selective attention is also a consequence of basic information processing limitations.In particular,what limitation necessitates selective attention?


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Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers and dividing by the count.

Standard Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that is symmetric about the mean, showing the distribution of a standard normal variable where the mean is zero and the standard deviation is one.

Z-score

A statistic that measures the distance of a single data point from the mean, expressed in units of standard deviation.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls.

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