The Basic Conclusion About Attention from the Research on Change

question 110

Multiple Choice

The basic conclusion about attention from the research on change blindness is that

• A) our attention seems to be automatically drawn to change.
• B) we are so prepared to detect sameness that we appear incapable of detecting change.
• C) we notice a few details (depending on what we paid attention to) but otherwise we retain the gist of a scene.
• D) attention cannot be studied scientifically in the way that memory can.

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