Answer:
Explanation:
The way a persons perception is affected by various factor in their attention is called attention bias.
It is a person's failure to consider alternative possibilities when occupied with existing thoughts. As it happens in smokers, they have attention bias for the cues and warning about smoking around them as their brain alters their reward sensitivity.
Similarly Rachel is also biased and only focused on the negative critique instead of positive comments so she is engaged in negative attention bias.
Answer: c) Selective attention
Explanation:
Selective attention is the process in which attention is given to selected portion or section of information for certain time period and avoiding other information that is considered irrelevant or non-important.
According to the question,Rachel is using selective attention through which she is focusing on negative comments made by teacher on her performance and ignored positive comments.
Other options are incorrect because negative attention bias, content oriented listening and pseudo-listening are not the phenomena which Rachel is involved.Thus, the correct option is option(c).
