The cocktail party effect refers to:
A) the attention-grabbing properties of spoken material containing your own name
B) our inability to selectively attend to one speaker when under the influence of alcohol
C) our inability to focus on a task in a noisy environment
D) our ability to selectively attend to one speaker in a noisy environment

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The cocktail party effect describes our ability to focus our auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much like when trying to listen to one person speaking in a noisy room at a cocktail party.

The Cocktail Party Effect Refers To