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bobbie

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The attention mechanism that keeps salient but irrelevant information from entering the current stream of thought is __________.
 
  a. selection
  b. mitigation
  c. repression
  d. inhibition

Question 2

According to Lavie, the attentional filter is more likely to be guided by physical characteristics when attention is __________ and by semantic characteristics when attention is __________.
 
  a. not taxed; taxed
  b. taxed; not taxed
  c. voluminous; limited
  d. limited; voluminous


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blfontai

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

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b


bobbie

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Wow, this really help

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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