Burt complains to a marriage counselor that although his wife,Lonnie,appears to be listening when he talks,she often has no memory of what he has said and is "in a world of her own." Lonnie is demonstrating ____.

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Lonnie is demonstrating selective attention, where she appears to be listening but is not actually processing the information being presented. This could be due to a variety of factors such as distractions, lack of interest, or difficulty with attention regulation. Dichotic listening refers to the ability to attend to two different stimuli presented simultaneously, dyslexia refers to difficulty with reading and language processing, and top-down processing refers to the use of prior knowledge and context to interpret new information. None of these fully capture the scenario described in the question.

Burt Complains to a Marriage Counselor That Although His Wife,Lonnie,appears