The cocktail party effect and the technique of shadowing demonstrate that
A)information we have filtered out of our attention is still being processed at some unconscious level.
B)individual pathways of sense receptors are not cross-modal in their processing.
C)selective attention only allows us to process one channel of input at a time.
D)we constantly engage in dichotic listening and attend to more than one message equally.

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The cocktail party effect and shadowing both provide evidence that information we filtered out of our attention is still being processed unconsciously. The cocktail party effect refers to our ability to filter out irrelevant stimuli but still notice our name or other meaningful information. Shadowing involves repeating a message in real-time while ignoring a different message in the other ear. Both of these phenomena demonstrate that we are unconsciously processing information that we are not consciously attending to.

The Cocktail Party Effect and the Technique of Shadowing Demonstrate