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What is the term for the ability to attend to one message and ignore others, even if the other messages are just as strong?
What is the term for the ability to attend to one message and ignore others, even if the other messages are just as strong?
- Sustained attention
- Divided attention
- Selective attention (correct)
- Inattentional blindness
What is the term for the failure to detect something because we are not paying attention, even though the information is reaching our senses?
What is the term for the failure to detect something because we are not paying attention, even though the information is reaching our senses?
- Automaticity
- Divided attention
- Change blindness
- Inattentional blindness (correct)
What is the term for the performance that requires little or no intention, awareness, or effort, and occurs unintentionally, without conscious awareness?
What is the term for the performance that requires little or no intention, awareness, or effort, and occurs unintentionally, without conscious awareness?
- Sustained attention
- Automaticity (correct)
- Divided attention
- Selective attention
What is the term for continuously paying attention over a period of time?
What is the term for continuously paying attention over a period of time?
What is the term for distributing our attention among several things at once?
What is the term for distributing our attention among several things at once?