Participants in Simons and Chabris' (1999) Study Did Not Notice

question 8

Multiple Choice

Participants in Simons and Chabris' (1999) study did not notice when a gorilla walked across a scene. This illustrates ______.

• A) inattentional blindness
• B) change blindness
• C) the Simon effect
• D) perceptual blindness

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