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jazziefee

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Which of the following students provides the most complete and accurate definition for the term attention?
 
  a. Josh: Attention refers to a focusing of cognitive processing so that you can concentrate on about seven stimuli.
  b. Maeve: Attention refers to the active process of combining isolated stimuli into a meaningful whole.
  c. Jenn: Attention is a storage component that takes in all possible external stimuli and holds them for several seconds.
  d. Igor: Attention lets you concentrate your cognitive activity so that you can focus on information from your memory and your sensory world.

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What can we conclude about the two major explanations for speech perception?
 
  a. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues against a phonetic module approach.
  b. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues for a phonetic module approach.
  c. Humans cannot use visual cues as aids to the perception of phonemes, which argues against a general mechanism approach.
  d. Infants use a general mechanism approach, whereas adults typically use a phonetic module approach.


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eliasc0401

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

Ans: d

Answer to Question 2

Ans: a


jazziefee

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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