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fagboi

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The cocktail party effect is
 
  a. the ability to pay attention to one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli.
  b. the inability to pay attention to one stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli.
  c. the diminished awareness of information in a crowd.
  d. the equal division of attention between competing stimuli.

Question 2

Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listened to two different messages, one presented to each ear, found that people
 
  a. could focus on a message only if they are repeating it.
  b. could focus on a message only if they rehearsed it.
  c. could focus on one message and ignore the other one at the same time.
  d. could not focus on a message presented to only one ear.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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