While driving home one evening,Owen is so involved in his cell phone conversation that he doesn't notice an empty car at the side of the road and hits it.Owen is all right,but since it wasn't yet dark,the police say Owen should have had no problems seeing the car.When they learn he was talking on his phone,they say that because he was distracted,other stimuli didn't register in his consciousness.This phenomenon is referred to as

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Inattentional blindness is the phenomenon where we fail to notice unexpected stimuli in visual attention because our attention is focused elsewhere. In this case, Owen's attention was focused on his cell phone conversation and he failed to notice the empty car, which resulted in the accident.

While Driving Home One Evening,Owen Is So Involved in His