In an experiment, Beau was told to watch the basketball team in the blue shirts and count how many baskets they made
Later he learned a person in a giraffe costume had walked on and off the court during the game and he had not seen it! He was disturbed to think that he could have missed something so obvious and wondered if there was something wrong with him. You could reassure him by explaining that _____ is a normal phenomenon in human perception.
a) inattentional blindness
b) automatic perception
c) sensory overload
d) memory loss
Answer: a
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During the last several years the digital divide has become largest between
adolescents and older adults. males and females. Eastern Europe and the United States. rich and poor.
Maslow laid the groundwork for his theory of ______________ by making the assumption that each of us has an intrinsic nature that is good or, at the very least, neutral
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Only about ______ of studies show that siblings of chronically ill children are at
higher risk for social and emotional problems; the rest show no effect, or even positive effects. a. 10% b. 30% c. 60% d. 80% e. 90%
Enrollment in primary school is typical but not universal, with approximately __________ of 6- to 10-year-old male children in sub-Saharan Africa attending.
A. 92% B. 81% C. 64% D. 48%