Which of the following is an example of inattentional blindness? Preet accidentally runs into a man walking toward her in the crosswalk because she is watching for cars. Gabe is so tired that he hits the snooze button on his alarm without waking up and is late for class. Kayla hears her name spoken in a crowd and focuses her hearing on the people who spoke it. Santos spent so much time studying for his midterm exam that he forgets which seat in the class room is his.

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Answer:

A

Explanation:

Inattentional blindness simply refer to failure to see objects staring  at our faces or directly facing us, when our mind is  focused  directly on another object.Thus because Preet's attention was watching for the cars, her attention was diverted with her gave on the cars that she was oblivious of the two menshe bumped into. This is an example of Intentional blindness.

it  may be caused by how attractive or conspicuous the object at focus is,if ths object is attracive the person will be oblivious of other objects around.

the degree of expectation of the individual focusing on the object,How expectant the person is to see the objects will catch the attention why negating others.

The extent of concentration of the individual to focus on the object that is the amount of mental work load on the  brain during focus, will make the particular stimulus to gain attention of the brain , neglecting others.