Sitting in a very noisy restaurant, you are able to screen out all the other conversations around you so you can listen to the friend with whom you are conversing. This is an example of ______

a. Broadbent's filter theory c. the cocktail party phenomenon
b. the Phi phenomenon d. intimacy


A

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