I think the correct answer is D
Colonist had won their freedom from the British so them being there was basically a threat.
In Simons and Chabris’s (1999) experiment, participants are focused on a challengingperceptual task, counting the white team’s basketball passes while ignoring the black team’s basketball passes. Because of the challenging nature of the task:
A. Inattentional blindness is more likely to occur
B. Attentional capture of irrelevant stimuli is more likely to occur
C. Attention shift capacity is less likely to occur
D. The spotlight model of attention is needed to explain the data
Answer:
A. Inattentional blindness is more likely to occur
Explanation:
Inattentional blindness often referred to as Perceptual blindness is a term in psychology which describes the failure of an individual or observer to notice or perceive a fully visible but unexpected object, due to the attention being given or channeled to another task at that moment.
This is a phenomenon that was first coined by Irvin Rock and Arien Mack, in 1992, both are psychologists.
The most common experiments demonstrating inattentional blindness is the "invisible gorilla test" carried out by Christopher Chabris, Ph.D. and Daniel Simons, Ph.D.
2. The writer, Ovid, chose that image to show that Midas was greedy and was never satisfied with the treasures he already had. That contributes to the point that Ovid is trying to make in his story because it shows that if one is too greedy, they will eventually lose something important to them.
3. At the end of the story, Bacchus has Midas give a reason for him to show him mercy. He does this to make sure that Midas truly understands that what he did was selfish and that he'd be less greedy in the future.
