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dejastew

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on: Aug 23, 2018
Selective attention involves
 
  a. focusing attention on certain stimuli and inhibiting responses to irrelevant information.
  b. selecting whether to store information in the right or left side of the brain.
  c. evaluating the sensory information carried to the brain.
  d. discarding information that does not get coded in working memory by sending it to primary memory and sifting through it in our minds when we have more time to deal with it.

Question 2

The term information processing describes
 
  a. the cognitive processes involved in memory
  b. the technique used by the brain to perceive sensation
  c. long term storage of sensory memory
  d. the emotional process of experiencing memory


bhavsar

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Reply #1 on: Aug 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: a

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: a


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