If You Are Mindlessly Flipping Through Channels While Focused on the Conversation

question 8

Multiple Choice

If you are mindlessly flipping through channels while focused on the conversation you're having with you friend, you are consuming television messages in

• A) the attentional state.
• B) the transported state.
• C) the automatic state.
• D) the self-reflexive state.

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