You are at a party and are listening intensely to a friend tell the "latest gossip," when another person in the room mentions your name in a conversation in a group to the left of where you are standing. According to research on selective attention, you will most likely.

shift your attention to the person who mentioned your name.

Explanation: According to research on selective attention, one would most likely shift his/her attention to the person who mentioned your name. This is as a result of selective attention to the which describes situations where we focus on a particular scenario/object in the environment for a certain period of time due to the fact that it is impossible to give our attention to every stimuli our environment in both capacity and duration. Since attention is a limited resource, selective attention enables us to tune out unimportant details and focus on what matters to us like hearing our names in other conversations.

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