Bill views himself as a Democrat. He is watching a television broadcast of a debate between two congressmen, a Republican and a Democrat. His roommate starts to vacuum the apartment. Bill asks his roommate to shut off the vacuum only when the Democrat is speaking. This scenario illustrates in action.

an attentional bias

Explanation:Attentional bias refers to the phenomenon of hyperattention to threatening material. One frequently employed technique for demonstrating attentional bias is the modified Stroop color task. This task requires subjects to name the color of a word while ignoring the meaning of that word. A consistent finding in Stroop studies with anxious patients is that their color naming of threatening words is slower than that of neutral words (Eysenck, 1992).

since learning about his learning patterns, logan has become very aware of the thoughts and feelings he experiences as he listens to the “internal chatter” of his patterns.