Michael is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is shadowing a physics passage in his right ear, while hearing a novel in his left ear. Michael wants to get done so he can go home and watch the big game. If a sentence giving the score in the game is inserted into the passage from the novel, Michael is most likely to:
A) shadow the right ear and attend the left ear material
B) shadow the right ear and ignore the left ear material
C) shadow the left ear material and ignore the right ear material
D) shadow the left ear and attend the right ear material

Question

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Michael is likely to attend to the left ear material if it contains information about the game score, which he is interested in, while continuing to shadow the right ear.

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