After spending a day with your spouse, you excuse yourself for 20 minutes and change your clothes and hairstyle. However, you are disappointed because when you return because your spouse does not even notice. Your spouse's behaviour may not result from a lack of caring, but rather because of:
A) a failure of short-term memory
B) a failure of sensory memory
C) shadowing
D) change blindness

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This scenario describes a classic case of change blindness, which is the failure to notice changes in visual stimuli when they occur gradually or in our peripheral vision. In this case, the spouse didn't notice the change in appearance because it was a subtle change that occurred while they were focused on something else.

After Spending a Day with Your Spouse, You Excuse Yourself