People fail to detect that an innocent person entering a scene differs from another person exiting the scene in ________ experiments.

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Change blindness refers to the failure to detect significant changes in a scene, which can include the presence or absence of a person. In this case, the failure to detect the innocent person entering the scene is an example of change blindness. The other options, misinformation effect, cognitive dissonance, and imagination inflation, do not accurately describe this phenomenon.

People Fail to Detect That an Innocent Person Entering a Scene