The bottleneck theory is inadequate in accounting for attention because

a. it proposes that humans have many different kinds of attention, and the current research shows that they have only one kind.
b. it explains only the data gathered with the event-related potential technique, and not with other neuroscience research methods.
c. it argues that people actually filter out very little irrelevant information.
d. it underestimates the flexibility of our attention.


Ans: d

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