Drew, Võ, and Wolfe (2013) used expert radiologists as their test participants. The stimuli were CT scans taken to determine if patients had dangerous nodules on their lungs. What happened in the study?
A. More than 80% of the radiologists failed to detect the image of a gorilla in the CT scan.
B. Because of change blindness, many of the expert radiologists were unable to detect a change of CT scan while they were examining them.
C. The radiologists attended to relevant aspects of the stimuli only when their attention was selectively undivided.
D. When distracting elements were introduced, the radiologists focused on those instead of the relevant aspects of the CT scan.
Answer: A
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