According to Treisman's attenuation model, which of the following would you expect to have the highest threshold for most people?
A) The word "money"
B) Their child's first name
C) The word "home"
D) The word "platypus"

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According to Treisman's model, the threshold for a word depends on its semantic relevance or importance. Words that are personally relevant, such as a person's own name or their child's name, will have lower thresholds. So, out of the given options, the word "platypus" is the least semantically important for most people and therefore would have the highest threshold.

According to Treisman's Attenuation Model, Which of the Following Would