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faduma

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____ refers to a person's ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which the person seeks to detect the appearance of a particular target stimulus of interest.
 
  a. Selective attention
 b. Vigilance
 c. Search
 d. Multiple-task processing

Question 2

You are watching your favorite TV show when a friend enters the room and wants to engage you in conversation. You really want to watch your show, but know that you should attend to the conversation. You try to do both. This is an example of ____.
 
  a. selective attention
 b. feature search
 c. divided attention
 d. signal detection theory


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c


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