Sentence:  He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks , he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all <WSD>attention</WSD> , he quacked with the ducks , and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others