Review Of Chapter 4: The Science Of Psychology By Laura A. King

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The research relates to the textbook, The Science of Psychology by Laura A. King. In Chapter 4: How We Sense and Perceive the World, we learned about attention. The differences in attention and how it can determine what we learn and perceive in a situation. As well as, in class we talk about the way people divert their attention to situations only to exclude some information of the situation. This could be done in selective attention. We determine how to perceive situations. For instance, “A familiar example of selective attention is the ability to concentrate on one voice among many in crowded airline terminal or noisy restaurant” (King 113). There has been multiple situations where sustain attention and selective situations determine such

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