Someone sitting at another booth in a restaurant, to whom you have been paying no attention, quietly speaks your name, and suddenly you are attending to that conversation. This is an example of ________.

A) the Phi phenomenon
B) cue-controlled inhibition
C) Broadbent's filter theory
D) the cocktail-party phenomenon

Cocktail-Party Phenomenon

The ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as if at a noisy party.

Broadbent's Filter Theory

A theory suggesting that information is filtered through a selective attention mechanism that allows only a portion of sensory inputs to reach consciousness.