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nummyann · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

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

Question 2

Burt complains to a marriage counselor that although his wife, Lonnie, appears to be listening when he talks, she often has no memory of what he has said and is in a world of her own. Lonnie is demonstrating ____.

a. dichotic listening
b. dyslexia
c. selective attention
d. top-down processing