• AndreTelevise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Individuals are constantly surrounded by potentially meaningful information; however, their ability to use this information is consistently constrained by cognitive systems that are capable of attending to and processing only a small amount of the information available at any given time

    100% this.

    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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      In my ed psych courses, I was left with the understanding that people pretty effectively filter out the stimuli that don’t actually benefit them. I can understand how a marketer would find this frustrating and go looking for something to blame.