PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Also known as the cocktail party effect. Inattentional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Selective attention refers to the processes that allow an individual to select and focus on particular input for further processing while simultaneously suppressing irrelevant or distracting information.

Detailed explanation-4: -Selective attention is how we focus our consciousness on one particular stimulus or group of stimuli, effectively tuning out the rest.