__________ is the failure to perceive or remember a stimulus directly in the visual field because another cognitively demanding task is being performed.

Dan recently watched a television program about rabies, and

those animals that are typically carriers of the disease. Last night, when he stepped outside to call his cat, he saw a raccoon waddling across his yard. The animal acted strangely and came straight toward him. Dan immediately decided it must have rabies. He made his decision based on A) exemplars. B) an algorithm. C) a representativeness heuristic. D) an availability heuristic.

The process by which your brain processes only the information that it receives, irrespective of past experiences or expectations, is called _____ processing

A) top-down B) misinformed C) bottom-up D) dorsal-lateral