Advances in thinking beyond Piaget's period of formal operational thought is termed

Freddy is looking for his girlfriend in a large crowd of people. Because he is so focused on finding her, he fails to notice when a man in a clown costume walks by, despite looking directly at him. This is an example of

a. a feature detection failure. b. sensory overload. c. sensory adaptation. d. inattentional blindness.

Regarding the visual perception of babies, which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Just hours after they are born, babies begin to prefer seeing their mother's face rather than a stranger's. b. At six months old, babies are able to recognize categories of objects that differ in shape or color. c. At age seven months, babies are able to see as well as their parents. d. At nine months old, babies are able to tell the difference between dogs and birds or other groups of animals.