You sit toward the front of your classroom, maintain eye contact with your instructor, and nod in agreement with her remarks. However, your mind is drifting, so you are not actually focused on the content of the lecture. You are exemplifying .

The answer is Pseudo Listening

Explanation:

Pseudo listening describes a non-listening action whereby an individual appears to be paying attention to a conversation or listening to someone/something. However, the individual is not actually listening but has his mind focused on something else.

In other words, an individual who is Pseudo-listening is only pretending to be listening or paying attention to someone/something. An example is sitting in front of your doctor, maintaining eye contact with him/her and nodding in agreements to his/her recommendations when your mind is actually far off from what he/she is saying.

Such kind of listening leads to little or no retention of the information being passed because one's focus is somewhere else.  

- "d.)  describe the iroquois belief of how the earth was created. for the iroquois, there was no reason to explain the importance of rituals. also, as animists, they didn't need a special elaboration as to why animals are important or why they had a crucial role in the earth's creation. this is just an authentic myth that explains the creation of the earth. every culture has produced creation myths."