Broadbent believed that our attention is selective because
a. we want to make as little effort as possible.
b. not all information is important to us, and so we filter out the unimportant and leave only
the essential.
c. the brain mechanisms involved in conscious processing of information have a limited
capacity.
d. humans tend to avoid information that is threatening to the self.
e. the environment contains more information than any processor could possibly absorb.
c. the brain mechanisms involved in conscious processing of information have a
limited capacity.
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