A medical student wants to be a surgeon. Observing an operation, she focuses her attention on the way her teacher is holding the scalpel and the angle between the blade and the skin. The student's attentional focus is an example of the component known as
a. goal-directed attention.
b. stimulus-driven attention.
c. invariant perception.
d. unconscious inference.
Answer: a. goal-directed attention.
Psychology
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