Question

​miguel tries to concentrate during a class lecture, but he can't get his mind off a personal problem. his preoccupation with his personal problem is an example of ________ noise.

Answer 1

This is an example of "Psychological noise".

Psychological noise refers to any distraction which is caused by a personal issue someone is experiencing, for example in the given case Miguel is having a personal problem, and this noise causes the information to get blockages from sender to receiver. There are other kind of noises excluding psychological noise like semantic noise and physiological noise.