The cocktail party effect is
A) the ability to pay attention to one message and ignore others, yet hear distinctive features of the unattended messages.
B) the inability to pay attention to one message in the presence of competing messages.
C) the diminished awareness of information in a crowd.
D) the equal division of attention between competing messages.

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The cocktail party effect refers to the ability to focus on one message while filtering out other information, yet still being able to pick up on distinct features of the surrounding unattended messages.

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