Shanice is having trouble paying attention to her friend, who is telling her about the exciting day she had, because she is worried about an upcoming exam and wants to go study. This is an example of:

  a.  physical noise.
  b.  physiological noise.
  c.  semantic noise.
  d.  psychological noise.


  d.  psychological noise.

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