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At a large party with lots of music and conversations going on simultaneously, a person is talking to a friend. at the same time, the person hears his/her name spoken from the other side of the room. (s)he immediately looks in the direction of the voice and sees the person who spoke his/her name while conversing with another person. the ability to detect one's name being spoken in this situation is an example of the _____ effect.

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the cocktail party effect.The effect of the cocktail party is a phenomenon that identifies the auditory attention in a particular stimulus when it filters other auditory stimuli. This happens when a person concentrates on a conversation in a noisy environment and the person can tune in to a voice disconnecting from the rest of the voices that are around.
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