A study by Corteen and Wood (1972) pre-conditioned participants to associate certain words with a mild electric shock. Later, participants performed a dichotic listening task in which the shock-related words were mixed with control words

All words were presented in the unattended channel during dichotic listening. The results indicated that _____, which supported the _______ approach to attention.
a) the shock-related words led to variation in autonomic responding; early selection
b) the shock-related words led to no variation in autonomic responding; early selection
c) the shock-related words led to variation in autonomic responding; late selection
d) the shock-related words led to no variation in autonomic responding; late selection


Answer: c

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