Henry just found out that his best friend, Jay, is getting divorced. Having recently been through a divorce himself, Henry can understand how Jay is feeling and offers to listen if Jay wants to talk. Henry is demonstrating
Which is the term for analyzing the positive and negative things you learn about someone to calculate an overall impression, then updating this impression as you learn new information?
When you pay attention to specific stimuli or information in your environment while simultaneously ignoring other stimuli, you are engaging in the selection step of perception.