Standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, Jerry kept looking at his watch to see the time. As a result, he failed to see that a store employee was being robbed by a person just in front of him. Jerry most clearly suffered

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Jerry's failure to notice the robbery despite looking in that direction can be attributed to inattentional blindness, which occurs when a person fails to notice an unexpected stimulus in their field of vision because their attention is focused on something else. In this case, Jerry's attention was focused on his watch, causing him to miss the robbery. The pop-out phenomenon refers to the ability of certain stimuli to automatically capture our attention, which is not applicable in this scenario. Blindsight refers to the ability of individuals with visual impairments to respond to stimuli they cannot consciously see and the cocktail party effect refers to the ability to selectively focus on one auditory input among multiple inputs, neither of which apply to this situation.

Standing in the Checkout Line at the Grocery Store, Jerry