During a break from his job as a waiter,Bernardo begins to read Hamlet and is so engrossed in the play that he fails to notice the clattering of dishes all around him.This is an example of
A)feature detection.
B)absolute threshold.
C)bottom-up processing.
D)selective attention.

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Bernardo is exhibiting selective attention, which is the ability to focus on a particular stimulus while ignoring others. In this case, he is focused on reading Hamlet and ignoring the clattering dishes. Feature detection refers to the process of identifying specific elements of a stimulus, absolute threshold refers to the minimum level of stimulus needed for detection, and bottom-up processing refers to the analysis of individual stimuli and their combination to form a cohesive whole.

During a Break from His Job as a Waiter,Bernardo Begins