If asked to watch a video and press a key each time a black-shirted player passed a basketball,most research participants remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman strolling across the video screen.This illustrated

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Inattentional blindness refers to the phenomenon where individuals fail to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight because their attention is focused on a different task or stimulus. In this case, the participants were so focused on counting the number of passes between the black-shirted players that they failed to perceive the umbrella-toting woman.

If Asked to Watch a Video and Press a Key