Question

Lauren is at the airport waiting to board her flight. She initiates a friendly conversation with another passenger. Despite the noise at the airport and multiple announcements being made at the same time, Lauren is able to focus on what the passenger is saying. This scenario best demonstrates the occurrence of the _____.
a. cocktail party effect
b. Stroop effect
c. volley principle
d. sound shadow
e. Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Cocktail party effect

Explanation:

One of the options for this question is repeated so we'll consider they are:

a. cocktail party effect

b. Stroop effect

c. volley principle

d. sound shadow

In psychology, the term cocktail party effect refers to the phenomenon by which the brain can focus its attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out the other stimuli that are not relevant to it. This phenomenon happens especially at places where there's a lot of noice where the listener is able to focus his/her attention in one particular stimulus.

In this example, Lauren is at the airport waiting to board her flight, she initiates a conversation with another passenger but despite the noise she is able to focus on what the passenger is saying. We can see that she is at a place where there's a lot of noise but she is still able to focus her attention on the conversation she's having with the other passenger. Therefore, this would be an example of the Cocktail party effect.

Answer 2

Answer:a. cocktail party effect

Explanation:The cocktail party effect refers how one is able to actual talk and focus on one person or conversation whilst in a very noisy environments. This is our ability to focus on what is interesting to us at that moment and be able to zoom out of everything else