In a classic demonstration of inattentional blindness,Ulric Neisser's participants counted passes while watching a basketball game video (Neisser,1979).The researchers recorded whether participants noticed a woman's image superimposed on the video.In this study,the _____ variable is _____.

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The dependent variable in this study is whether participants noticed the woman, as this is what the researchers are measuring in order to determine if inattentional blindness is present. The number of passes counted is not the focus of the study and therefore would not be the dependent variable. The control variable would be the conditions under which both the passes and the woman were presented, and is not related to either the dependent or independent variable in this case.

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