Yumi is slowing down as she approaches a red light at an intersection. At that moment, her phone notifies her that a new text message has come in. She turns her attention from the road to the phone to see who the sender is and bumps into the car ahead of her. Yumi's poor decision at the ________ stage in the process of perception accounts for her mishap.
A) selection
B) organization
C) activation
D) interpretation

Question

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Yumi's poor decision to focus on her phone and check her new text message instead of paying attention to the road is a problem with the selection stage of the perception process. This means she failed to select the relevant information from her environment (the red light and the car in front of her) that would have prevented the accident.

Yumi Is Slowing Down as She Approaches a Red Light