On a warm summer day,a student is sitting in the shade of a tree reading a novel when the tapping of a woodpecker on a nearby tree is momentarily distracting.This shift in attention is an example of which component of attention?
A)shadowing
B)dichotic viewing
C)goal-directed selection
D)stimulus-driven capture

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The tapping of the woodpecker is a stimulus that involuntarily captures the student's attention, which is an example of stimulus-driven capture.

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