Corolina was not aware of what her mother was telling her while she was focused on a phone voice message from a friend.Her experience best illustrates

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The cocktail party effect refers to the ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a person can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room. In this case, Corolina's focus on the phone voice message to the exclusion of her mother's words is an example of this phenomenon, where her attention is selectively focused on one source of auditory information.

Corolina Was Not Aware of What Her Mother Was Telling