No matter how engaged in conversation parents may be,they probably will quickly notice if their children start crying.This is an example of the:
A)unity of consciousness.
B)division of attention.
C)dual attention phenomenon.
D)cocktail-party effect.

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The cocktail-party effect refers to the brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a person can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room. In this scenario, parents can detect their children's crying amidst other conversations, which exemplifies this effect.

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