Twoweeks ago, you were playing with a guitar at home – an instrumentthat you have been playing for ten years. Your mother came backfrom work and began talking to you nonstop. In this case, you wereable to hear everything she said. Last night, you were studying fora difficult final exam in philosophy. Your mother gave you the samespeech again when she came home, but this time you were not able tohear anything she said. Why was there a big difference in yourability to attend to your mother's speech between the two cases?Explain your answer with a relevant theory
