Bronte is participating in a research study to determine how effectively she encodes noises that she hears in her surroundings. She wears headphones and is asked to pay attention to and repeat the message in one ear while hearing a different message in the other ear. Bronte is participating in a task.

a. storage
b. retrieval
c. change blindness
d. selective listening

Brontë is participating in a SELECTIVE LISTENING task.

Explanation: Selective listening can be defined as the action in which an individual focus their attention INTENTIONALLY on a specific source of a sound or spoken words.

It's a type of mental filtering in which we tune out another sound or ideas when they don't line up with ours.

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