In one experiment,most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated

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This experiment demonstrated inattentional blindness, which is the phenomenon of not noticing unexpected stimuli in one's visual field when attention is focused on a different task or stimulus. The participants were focused on counting basketball tosses and did not attend to the woman with the umbrella. The other answer choices (REM rebound, circadian rhythms, latent content) are unrelated to this phenomenon.

In One Experiment,most of the Participants Who Viewed a Videotape