Clay has played professional soccer for seven years and is easily able to tune out the sound of the crowd and all other irrelevant sensory information during the game. Bruce is a rookie and is often distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood
Clay and Bruce are showing differing levels of ______________.
A) absolute thresholds.
B) parallel processing
C) selective attention
D) top-down processing
Answer: C
Rationale: Selective attention involves focusing on one particular event or task, such as focused studying, driving without distraction, or attentively listening to music or watching a movie.
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