Clay has played professional soccer for seven years and is easily able to tune out the sound of the crowd and all other irrelevant sensory information during the game.Bruce is a rookie and is often distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood of the crowd.Clay and Bruce are showing differing levels of
A)absolute thresholds.
B)parallel processing.
C)selective attention.
D)top-down processing.

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Clay is able to selectively attend to relevant information (the game), while filtering out irrelevant information (the crowd). Bruce, on the other hand, seems to lack this ability, as he is distracted by what his opponents are saying and the mood of the crowd. Therefore, they are showing differing levels of selective attention.

Clay Has Played Professional Soccer for Seven Years and Is