A bank teller was so distracted by the sight of a bank robber's weapon that she failed to perceive important features of the criminal's physical appearance. This best illustrates

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The teller's failure to perceive important features of the robber's appearance was due to selective attention, which occurs when we focus on one aspect of sensory information and ignore others. The sight of the robber's weapon was a strong stimulus that captured the teller's attention, causing her to ignore other important details. Change blindness (B) refers to the difficulty people have in detecting changes in visual stimuli when those changes occur gradually or in the absence of attention. REM rebound (A) refers to the tendency for people to experience increased amounts of REM sleep after a period of REM sleep deprivation. "Manifest content" (D) is a term used in psychoanalytic theory to refer to the surface-level content of a dream, as distinct from its hidden or symbolic meaning.

A Bank Teller Was So Distracted by the Sight of a Bank