Our inability to consciously process all the sensory information available to us at any single point in time best illustrates the need for
A) blindsight.
B) selective attention.
C) choice blindness.
D) popout.

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Selective attention is the process by which we focus our conscious awareness on a particular stimuli while filtering out other sensory information. Our brain receives an enormous amount of sensory information at once and selective attention allows us to prioritize and process the most important information for our current goal or task. The other answer choices are not directly related to the concept of the need for conscious selective attention.

Our Inability to Consciously Process All the Sensory Information Available