Participants in Simons & Levin's (1998) study did not notice when a person asking them for directions was switched with another person. This illustrates _____.

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Simons & Levin's (1998) study demonstrated change blindness where participants failed to notice a change in a scene due to limited attention and perceptual processing. The switch of the person asking for directions went unnoticed, leading to change blindness. Visual blindness and color blindness are not relevant to this study, while top-down processing may contribute to change blindness but is not the best answer option.

Participants in Simons & Levin's (1998) Study Did Not Notice