PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

CONSCIOUSNESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is called
A
blindsight
B
parallel processing
C
change blindness
D
selective attention
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective Attention. The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect (ability to attend selectively to only one voice among many).

Detailed explanation-2: -Selective Attention. • The focusing of conscious awareness on a. particular stimulus.

Detailed explanation-3: -Major theories of consciousness (conscious awareness) focus on human perceptual consciousness, in regards to either or both the content of the theory or experimental paradigms cited to support it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Attention is the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli. It is a process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective.

Detailed explanation-5: -Few would dispute that the relationship between selective attention and perceptual consciousness is an intimate one. When we pay attention to an object, we become conscious of its various attributes; when we shift attention away, the object fades from consciousness.

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