Which One of the Following Situations Is the Best Example

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following situations is the best example of the cocktail party phenomenon as psychologists use the term?

• A) When Ann walks into a room full of strangers, she immediately notices someone who looks familiar.
• B) Bernie has difficulty paying attention to anything when too many people talk to him at once.
• C) Carolyn's attention is captured immediately when someone calls her name.
• D) Darren can hear what his friend is telling him even though the television is on and two other people in the room are talking.

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Definitions:

Encoding Failure

A situation in which information does not enter the brain's long-term memory and is thus forgotten.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory that allows individuals to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Storage

The act of maintaining and holding information in the brain for future retrieval.

Retroactive Interference

A phenomenon where newly learned information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.