Because Marla is so strongly committed to a fat-free diet,she did not bother to read a recent report by the New England Journal of Medicine that suggested that some fat in our diet is healthy.The report was in a newspaper that Marla reads daily,but the headline did not appeal to Marla as a the result of A)selective retention. B)selective comprehension. C)selective exposure. D)selective perception. E)stimulus discrimination.

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Marla did not read the report because she was selectively exposing herself only to information that supported her belief in a fat-free diet, and ignored any information that contradicted it.

Because Marla Is So Strongly Committed to a Fat-Free Diet,she