The tendency to respond more slowly or not at all to the second appearance of a target in an RSVP task when the second stimulus occurs within 500 ms of the first stimulus is known as ______.
A)attentional capture
B)attentional blink
C)attentional blindness
D)attentional search

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The phenomenon described is called attentional blink, which refers to the difficulty in perceiving the second of two rapidly presented visual stimuli (targets) when it appears within 500 ms of the first stimulus. This is thought to be due to an attentional bottleneck that limits the processing of multiple stimuli.

The Tendency to Respond More Slowly or Not at All