Question

While a man provided directions to a construction worker, two experimenters rudely interrupted by passing between them carrying a door. The man's failure to notice that during this interruption the construction worker was replaced by another person wearing different-colored clothes illustrates A) the popout phenomenon. B) blindsight. C) parallel processing. D) change blindness.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct option is D: Change blindness

Explanation:

Change blindness is considered to be a perceptual phenomenon that happens when an observer is subjected to a change in visual stimulus, and he or she does not notice any change. For example, a man providing direction to a construction worker an an obstruction caused a change in the person he is giving the direction. Despite the change in person, he does not notice this, even though the person is wearing a different cloth and continues his description of the direction to the new person as if it were the old person.