medium · MCAT psych-soc
The 'cocktail party effect,' where you can hear your name mentioned in a noisy room even if you weren't listening to that conversation, is an example of:
- Selective attention and the pre-attentive filter.
- The serial position effect on recall order.
- Inattentional blindness to unexpected stimuli.
- Divided attention and multitasking across streams.
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