Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because your attention is directed elsewhere is called ___________
A) sensory overload
B) selective attention
C) inattentional blindness
D) divided attention
Answer: C
Rationale: Missing the obvious can be surprisingly easy—especially if you are focused on just one particular aspect of your environment. This phenomenon is called inattentional blindness.
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a. in childhood b. in adolescence c. in early adulthood d. in late life
In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred before birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that
A) language functioning was highly lateralized from birth to age 5. B) compared with spatial skills, language skills were more impaired after early brain injury. C) undamaged areas—in either the left or the right hemisphere—took over certain language functions. D) children never fully caught up in vocabulary or grammatical skills.