Selective listening is justifiable when:.
a) the listener assumes that a subject is too difficult or easy to understand.
b) the listener refuses to listen to other people due to prejudice.
c) the listener wants something to be true so badly that he or she interprets the message to make it true.
d) the listener is overwhelmed with incoming information and has to decide which information will be processed and remembered

The listener is overwhelmed with incoming information and has to decide which information will be processed and remembered.

Explanation:

Selective listening is the phenomenon of attention in which we processed information that we want to hear or we want to see. This called a type of mental filtering in which we tuned others thought and we filter that thinking when does not tune with us.

This is not called a bad habit or bad behavior. It is called the big problem For the speaker because you are unable to hear what some say you don't get the confrontation. The potential says that we often reject to hear what someone has says.

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