While reading a book about Sigmund Freud, you come upon the term psychosomatic.You cannot quite figure out the meaning of the word from the context in which it is used, and so you bring to mind your rudimentary knowledge of the parts of the word.You know that psycho has to do with the mind or with thinking, and you also know that somatic has to do with the body.Looking back at the book, you come to the conclusion that psychosomatic has to do with the mind's influence on one's physical state.You have just relied on
A) selective attention.
B) selective encoding.
C) selective comparison.
D) selective search strategies.

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Selective comparison involves using existing knowledge to make sense of new information by comparing it to what is already known. In this case, you used your knowledge of the parts of the word to understand its meaning.

While Reading a Book About Sigmund Freud, You Come Upon