Simons and Chabris Showed a Video of Students Passing a Basketball

question 46

Multiple Choice

 Simons and Chabris showed a video of students passing a basketball and asked participants to count how many passes made. In the video, a person in a gorilla suit walked through the basketball players for 5 seconds. Approximately how many of the participants reported seeing the "gorilla"

• A) 100
• B) 77
• C) 54
• D) 23

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Definitions:

Cognitive Maps

Cognitive maps that allow people to navigate and comprehend their surrounding space.

Classical Conditioning

A training routine where two stimuli are continuously associated; the reaction, at outset evoked by the second stimulus, ultimately becomes evoked by the first stimulus solely.

Immediate Reinforcers

Rewards or consequences that immediately follow a behavior, significantly affecting the likelihood of the behavior occurring again.

Controlled Events

Situations or occurrences that are directly managed or governed by someone or something to ensure a desired outcome.