Leah Is Watching Her Favourite Soap Opera When Her Mother

Leah is watching her favourite soap opera when her mother phones up with some important news. She turns away from the TV to listen to her mother but she keeps the sound on. What do dichotic listening studies suggest that she will have picked up from the soap opera?

A) no information at all
B) just an awareness that people were talking
C) only the major events occurring in the plot
D) some sexually exciting words in the soap opera
E) the whole of the conversations in the soap opera