An experimenter gives participants a set of headphones and plays a different story in each ear.Each participant is told to shadow the message in the left ear, and to ignore the message in the right ear.The attended story is , while the nonattended story is .
A)more likely to be remembered; processed at least to some extent
B)more likely to be remembered; not processed at all
C)within conscious awareness; subliminal
D)controlled; automatic

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According to the dichotic listening task, the message in the attended ear is more likely to be remembered as compared to the message in the nonattended ear. This is because the attended story is processed, albeit selectively, and therefore, more likely to be encoded into memory. However, the nonattended story is also processed to some extent, and therefore, may be remembered to some extent.

An Experimenter Gives Participants a Set of Headphones and Plays