Our attention has been said to involve a ______ that filters out everything except the information we are attending to.
A. bottleneck
B. net
C. switchboard
D. bridge
Answer: A
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____________ transform the information in a problem into mental representation
a. Decoding processes c. Mental strategies b. Encoding processes d. Automatic processes
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