Question

Rachel finished her oral exam in her Spanish class, and her teacher Señora Lopez evaluated her performance. Although Rachel did well on the exam, and most of Señora Lopez's comments were positive, Rachel focused only on the negative critiques and felt very bad about her performance. Rachel just engaged in which of the following behaviors?

a. negative attention bias
b. pseudolistening
c. selective attention
d. content-oriented listening

Answer 1

selective attention

Step-by-step explanation:

Rachael is engaged in selective attention, selective attention is the process of focusing/directing our attention to a specific, object or issue while neglecting everything else. Rachael selectively gave attention to the negative comments and ignored the positive ones.