A friend confesses that he has a messy room, but you discount this information.

A) Availability
B) Relevance
C) Utilization
D) Detection
E) Judgment
F) Understanding

Utilization is the stage where the perceiver decides how to use the information they have detected and deemed relevant. In this scenario, failing to consider the friend's confession about their messy room involves a failure in the utilization stage, where the information was available and relevant but not properly integrated into the judgment.