Bethany Is Trying to Focus on a Conversation Across the Room

Multiple Choice

Bethany is trying to focus on a conversation across the room during a party she is attending.This is because she thinks she heard her name above the din of the conversation.Her ability to hear her name is due to the mechanism of _________.

A) Broadbent's forgetting theory
B) the homecoming queen party phenomenon
C) selective attention
D) intimacy