The 'cocktail party effect' is descriptive of
- selective attention.
- sustained attention.
- automatic attention.
Explanation from PART66Online
The cocktail party effect describes our ability to focus on one conversation while filtering out competing voices, a textbook example of selective attention. Sustained attention concerns maintaining focus over time and automatic attention is involuntary, so picking out one signal from many illustrates selective attention.
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Adam Collier asked · 17 Apr 2018
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