Which of the following was discussed as an advantage of selective attention?
A) Selective attention allows us not to be overwhelmed by the millions of sensory messages that are being processed by our nervous system.
B) Selective attention determines the sensitivity of various sensory receptor neurons.
C) Selective attention allows us to completely attend to multiple stimuli simultaneously.
D) Selective attention prevents us from attending to potentially unimportant stimuli once we have filtered them out of attention.
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