Broadbent's filter theory of attention assumed that:
A) people use physical traits of stimuli to choose what gets through the attention bottleneck.
B) attending is largely a volitional process that opens and closes gates on information flow.
C) recognition of the stimulus must occur before filtering can occur.
D) the attender uses mostly semantic information to decide what gets through and what does not get through.

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Broadbent's filter theory of attention posits that stimuli are filtered or selected to be attended to at an early stage of processing based on their physical characteristics, such as the pitch of a sound or the color of a visual stimulus, rather than on a semantic or meaning-based analysis.

Broadbent's Filter Theory of Attention Assumed That