According to Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory,

a. distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field.
b. people first focus selective attention on important parts of the stimulus.
c. focused attention is a relatively low-level kind of attention; people can quickly perform two focused-attention tasks simultaneously.
d. people use focused attention for vision, and they use distributed attention for hearing.


Ans: a

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