A psychology professor decides to play a practical joke on a colleague in the history department.While the historian is giving a lecture on the first day of class,the psychology professor interrupts and asks to speak with her outside the classroom.While they are conversing,all of the students leave through a back door and are replaced with a completely new group of students.Upon returning,the history professor continues her lecture without noticing that the students are different,illustrating:
A)change blindness.
B)apparent motion.
C)absentmindedness.
D)inattentional blindness.

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Change blindness is the failure to notice significant changes in a visual scene, which is what the history professor experienced when she did not notice the entire class had been replaced.

A Psychology Professor Decides to Play a Practical Joke on a Colleague