Question

Elliot is having trouble listening effectively in his political science class. usually he listens well in class, but the professor in this case has been presenting information so quickly while simultaneously flipping through an abundance of powerpoint slides, that elliot doesn't know where to focus his energies. this is an example of elliot experiencing

Answer 1

The reason is message over load. Message over load is a term used to describe the difficulty of understanding an issue and effectively making decisions when some one has too much information having about the issue. Decision makers have fairly limited congnitive processing capacity.