Question

Rachel finished her oral exam in her Spanish class, and her teacher Señora Lopez evaluated her performance. Although Rachel did well on the exam, and most of Señora Lopez's comments were positive, Rachel focused only on the negative critiques and felt very bad about her performance. Rachel just engaged in which of the following behaviors? a. pseudolistening
b. content-oriented listening
c. selective attention
d. negative attention bias

Answer 1

Answer: c) Selective attention

Explanation:

Selective attention is the process in which attention is given to selected portion or section of information for certain time period and avoiding other   information that is considered irrelevant or non-important.

According to the question,Rachel is using selective attention through which she is focusing on negative comments made by teacher on her performance and ignored positive comments.

Other options are incorrect because negative attention bias, content oriented listening and pseudo-listening are not the phenomena which Rachel is involved.Thus, the correct option is option(c).

Answer 2

Answer:

D. Negative attention bias

Explanation:

The way a persons perception is affected by various factor in their attention is called attention bias.

It is a person's failure to consider alternative possibilities when occupied with existing thoughts.  As it happens in smokers, they  have attention bias for the cues and warning about smoking around them as their brain alters their reward sensitivity.  

Similarly Rachel is also biased and only focused on the negative critique instead of positive comments so she is engaged in negative attention bias.