Selective attention involves
a. focusing attention on certain stimuli and inhibiting responses to irrelevant information.
b. selecting whether to store information in the right or left side of the brain.
c. evaluating the sensory information carried to the brain.
d. discarding information that does not get coded in working memory by sending it to primary memory and sifting through it in our minds when we have more time to deal with it.
ANSWER: a
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