Someone a short distance away,to whom you have been paying no attention,quietly speaks your name,and suddenly you attend to that person.This is an example of __________.
A)Broadbent's process of selective memory
B)the phi phenomenon
C)the cocktail party phenomenon
D)cue-controlled inhibition

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This is an example of the cocktail party phenomenon, where we filter out most of the incoming sensory information but can still attend to stimuli that are personally relevant or important to us, such as our name being spoken. Broadbent's process of selective memory refers to our ability to selectively process and encode certain information from our environment, while the phi phenomenon refers to the illusion of movement created by rapidly flashing lights. Cue-controlled inhibition is a mechanism that helps to suppress irrelevant information. None of these concepts fully capture the described scenario.

Someone a Short Distance Away,to Whom You Have Been Paying