Question

In a study, participants watched two teams pass a basketball among teammates. one team was wearing white shirts and the other was wearing black shirts. participants were told to count how many times the team wearing the white shirts passed the basketball, thereby directing their attention to the white shirts and ignoring the black shirts. interestingly, half of the study participants failed to notice when a man wearing a black gorilla suit walked through the swirl of players, even though the gorilla paused to thump its chest. this phenomenon is known as:

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: inattentional blindness

inattentional blindness a situation when people fail to notice a certain object or individuals because other reasons beside vision. This tend to happen when our brain is focusing on a certain type of task to the point where there is no enough allocation could be made to pay attention to other things beside the task.

Answer 2

In a study, participants watched two teams pass a basketball among teammates. one team was wearing white shirts and the other was wearing black shirts. participants were told to count how many times the team wearing the white shirts passed the basketball, thereby directing their attention to the white shirts and ignoring the black shirts. interestingly, half of the study participants failed to notice when a man wearing a black gorilla suit walked through the swirl of players, even though the gorilla paused to thump its chest. this phenomenon is known as inattentional blindness.