2.1a

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What is the "cocktail party effect"?

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The ability to focus on a single voice in a noisy environment

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What is inattentional blindness?

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The failure to notice unexpected objects in plain sight.

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On a warm summer day, Kimberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly’s brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

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context.

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What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?

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selective attention

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A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.

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perceptual set