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rmenurse

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A theoretical perspective on attention developed to explain how people are able to attend to more than a single task or two, this theoretical approach argues that attention consists in a limited resources pool from which one decides how much attention to allocate among competing needs.

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The phenomenon occurring when limitations in attentional resources cause a delay in responding to the second of two stimuli occurring closely in time, is explained by bottleneck theories of attention as resulting from the ________________ period.
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Answer to Question 1

Central-resource theories.

Answer to Question 2

psychological refractory



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