Question

Millie enters a crowded reception, but finds her colleague and engages in an important conversation about her current project. Which phenomenon does this demonstrate?

Perceptual set
Cocktail party effect
Schema
Subliminal perception
Weber's law

Answer 1

Cocktail party effect

Step-by-step explanation:

The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of the brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.