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Martha's mom asks her to go to the grocery store for her. Martha agrees and heads upstairs to get ready. Before she leaves her house, she sits down at her desk to check her e-mail and receives a text message from her friend Nancy to turn on the television and see the story about their friend, Jill. As the story about Jill comes on, Martha's mom comes in and asks Martha to get her an eight-ounce can of diced tomatoes. Martha smiles at Mom and nods and listens to the story on television as she e-mails Sandra and picks up her phone to text Nancy. When Martha gets to the store, she heads to the tomato aisle and stands in front of the pureed tomatoes trying to remember if mom wanted an 8- or 16-ounce can. This scenario depicts which barrier to communication

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Information overload

Step-by-step explanation:

Information Overload

This is simply described as the act of an individual eing faced with more information than one can possibly and effectively process. Its two major perspectives are failure to filter information and there is too much information.

The 3 types of Information Overload?

1) Task‐related: this is commonly called as 'work overload'.

2) Message: This occurs from communication usually email in particular.

3) Media: the use of media messages across many outlets as ources of information.

People cause information overload when capacity is reached in information consumption due to the l imitations in the individual's information‐processing capacity, Decision scope and resulting documentation needs, including comprehension. It can also be due to the use of jargon and complexity and others.

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