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bobypop · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Chapter 3 discussed a study in which people in a laboratory setting were instructed to pay close attention to one message and to ignore a second message that mentioned their own name. According to your textbook,

a. about one-third of the time, people noticed their name in the irrelevant message.
b. people almost always noticed their name in the irrelevant message.
c. people almost always noticed their name in the relevant message, but they almost never noticed their name in the irrelevant message.
d. people were much more likely to notice their name in the irrelevant message than they would in a situation that has high ecological validity.

Question 2

Research on dichotic listening shows that

a. most people have great difficulty attending to one task while ignoring another task.
b. when people pay attention to one task, they typically notice little about other tasks.
c. selective attention is an unfortunate problem that limits our performance enormously.
d. we can usually shadow one series of items and process another series very accurately.