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According to the attenuation theory, the cocktail party phenomenon occurs because:
 
  a) information that is relevant to the situation has a low threshold for recognition.
   b) information that is personally relevant to you has a low threshold for recognition.
   c) hearing this type of information increases arousal which increases the attentional resources enough to recognize your name.
   d) this information has familiar physical characteristics which makes it stand out.

Question 2

A study by Corteen and Wood (1972) pre-conditioned participants to associate certain words with a mild electric shock. Later, participants performed a dichotic listening task in which the shock-related words were mixed with control words.
 
  All words were presented in the unattended channel during dichotic listening. The results indicated that _____, which supported the _______ approach to attention.
   a) the shock-related words led to variation in autonomic responding; early selection
   b) the shock-related words led to no variation in autonomic responding; early selection
   c) the shock-related words led to variation in autonomic responding; late selection
   d) the shock-related words led to no variation in autonomic responding; late selection



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millet

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c




scienceeasy

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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