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dakota nelson

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What can we conclude about whether people notice the characteristics of the unattended messages in a selective attention task?
 
  a. People typically notice the same characteristics in the unattended message as in the attended message.
  b. The only time people can notice the unattended message is when their own name is mentioned.
  c. People can sometimes notice the meaning of the unattended message, depending on the characteristics of the task.
  d. If people are conscientious about listening to the relevant message, they will not notice any characteristics about the irrelevant message.

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The Stroop effect is related to selective attention because
 
  a. people are required to pay selective attention to the shape of the object, rather than its meaning.
  b. people are required to pay selective attention to the color of the stimulus, rather than the name of the stimulus.
  c. the stimuli elicit selective parallel distributed processing.
  d. attention involves only bottom-up processing.



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britb2u

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: c

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b




dakota nelson

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


brbarasa

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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