One study of long-haul truck drivers showed that they were at 23 times greater risk of a collision while texting. This best illustrates the impact of

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Selective attention refers to our ability to focus on certain stimuli while ignoring others. In this case, the long-haul truck drivers are distracted by texting, meaning their selective attention is impaired, and they are more likely to get into a collision as a result. The other options do not apply here - the pop-out phenomenon refers to salient stimuli grabbing our attention automatically, parallel processing refers to the brain's ability to process multiple things at once, and change blindness refers to our difficulty in noticing changes in our environment when we're not actively attending to them.

One Study of Long-Haul Truck Drivers Showed That They Were