Question

Sarit is at a bar full of music, chatter, and laughter. He gets involved in an interesting conversation with a woman named Mona, and he tunes out all the background noise. Sarit's friend, Karen, taps him on the shoulder and asks what song just played on the jukebox. Sarit says he doesn't know, even though he is sitting right next to the jukebox and is familiar with popular music. This illustrates the role that ________ plays in what is sensed versus what is perceived.

Answer 1

Answer:

attention

Explanation:

Attention is a cognitive process by which a person is able to focus on a discrete aspect of information while ignoring information that is not needed.

Here, Sarit is paying attention to what Mona is saying. By doing this only what Mona is saying is considered as valuable information to Sarit. Other all perceived information is ignored.

When Karen asks Sarit about what song was playing this information is not what he was focusing on hence it is ignored.