Question

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending. this is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation. her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of ________. intimacy selective attention the homecoming queen party phenomenon broadbent's forgetting theory

Answer 1

The correct answer is Selective Attention.

Selective attention refers to the psychological procedure in which an individual takes care of one or a couple of tangible information sources while disregarding alternate ones. In the given situation, Bethany focused on the conversation across the room, due to the reason that she heard her name being talked about, wherein she blocked all of what she is hearing and focused on the conversation across the hall, this cognitive process called selective attention.