Aperson is at a large party with lots of music and conversations going on simultaneously. while talking to a friend about a romantic breakup, the person hears his name spoken from the other side of the room. he immediately looks in the direction of the voice and sees the person who spoke his name. this ability to detect one's name being spoken in this situation is an example of the effect.

cocktail party effect.

Explanation:

According to my research on studies conducted by various psychologists, I can say that based on the information provided within the question this ability is an example of the cocktail party effect. This is a known phenomenon in which the brain has the ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli. Which in this case the particular stimulus is the individuals name while the other stimuli is all the other party distractions.

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d. pushing his plate away from the edge of the table idk what the other guy was trying to

the answer is slaves

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