The process of selective looking, listening, smelling, and feeling is called ____________.

A) retention
B) cognition
C) recognition
D) attention

The process described is that of selective attention, where the individual chooses to pay attention to specific information or stimuli while filtering out others. Retention refers to the ability to remember or store information, cognition is the mental process of understanding and reasoning, and recognition is the ability to identify something as previously encountered or known.