Psychology in Modules
Psychology in Modules
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781319050610
Author: David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall
Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Chapter 7, Problem 1MM
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Introduction: Selective attention is the awareness for focusing of conscious on minute aspects that we experience. The object for which we give attention goes under selective attention, and others we fail to see. Failure refers to observe a visible object is incorporated under the inattentiveness of an object.

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Correct answer: Failure to see visible objects as our attention is occupied elsewhere is called inattentional blindness.

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The inattentional blindness is the perceptual blindness that occurs due to the lack of psychological attention. Inattentional blindness is mainly explained as the situation in which an individual fails to distinguish the surprising stimulus of plain sight. A temporary visual blindness occurs when it becomes impossible for the individual to attend to the entire unconscious stimulus.

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