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A number of scientists have posited that the amount of attentional resources available within the central nervous system is capable of expanding and contracting, making either more or less attentional capacity available depending on a number of factors. One specific factor that has been implicated as perhaps the major determinant in altering the amount of attentional resources available is a person's
 A. general intelligence.
  B. motivational goals.
  C. level of arousal.
  D. feelings of empowerment.

Question 2

The theoretical perspective that attention is limited to the processing of only one or two chunks of information at a time, and that the processing of this information must be completed before additional sensory information can be processed, is called the ________________ theory of attention.
 A. central-resource
  B. refractory
  C. bottleneck
  D. closed channel



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

C



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