Participants in an Experiment Are Asked to Look at Pictures

question 48

Multiple Choice

Participants in an experiment are asked to look at pictures of driving scenes taken from the driver's point of view.When the scenes are changed,participants can easily detect some small changes,such as wording on a traffic sign.However,they often miss large irrelevant changes such as a disappearing building.This is because of ____.

• A) inattentional blindness
• B) divided attention
• C) Alzheimer's disease
• D) parallel processing

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