Familiarity and repeated exposure can sometimes make bad things worse. What does this idea best illustrate?

While reading a friend's status update on a social networking site, Cory ignores the scrolling newsfeed and the changing advertisements on the right-hand side of the screen. Cory is demonstrating:

A. sequential processing. B. consciousness. C. parallel processing. D. selective attention.

In the Head Start REDI enrichment program, which of the following activities would foster children's social skills?

A) teachers reinforcing new vocabulary words with pictures B) parents receiving one-on-one mentoring from coaches C) teachers using puppet characters and role-play demonstrations D) specially designed learning centers promoting phonological awareness