Module 2.1a

Question 1

Selective Attention

Answer 1

Focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

Question 2

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 2

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Question 3

Change Blindness

Answer 3

Failing to notice changes in the environment; a form of inattentional blindness.

Question 4

Perceptual Set

Answer 4

A mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not another