In a Now Classic Study by Simons and Chabris (1999),participants

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In a now classic study by Simons and Chabris (1999) ,participants watched two teams pass a basketball to their teammates. One team was wearing white shirts and the other team was wearing black shirts. Participants are told to counthow many times the team wearing the white shirts passed the basketball, thereby directing their attention to the white shirts and ignoring the black shirts. Interestingly, more than half ofthe participants failed to notice when a man wearing a black gorilla suit walked right past the two teams. This phenomenon is known as:

• A)inattentional blindness.
• B)change blindness.
• C)the cocktail party effect.
• D)mindfulness.