Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you are not attending to it is called:

a. sensory overload.
b. selective attention.
c. inattentional blindness.
d. sensory deprivation.


Answer: c

Psychology

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What comment might the teacher have written on his paper? a) "Good job, you have demonstrated a strong relationship between height and weight." b) "Please check your calculations because you calculated a correlation coefficient that cannot occur." c) "This assignment was a trick because height and weight cannot be correlated using methods available today." d) "Looks like there is a strong negative relationship between height and weight, which is not likely to occur outside of a college population."

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Which of the following is the BEST example of rapport talk?

a. "I understand how you feel; the very same thing happened to me." b. "Let me tell you the difference between the political parties . . ." c. "To get to the movie theater, turn left at the next corner." d. "To handle your troublesome co-worker, you should simply tell him to get lost."

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_______________ allows scientists to see the neural activity associated with each of the series of steps associated with a thought in real time

a. ERPs b. TMS c. EEGs d. MRIs

Psychology