In Simons and Chabris's (1999) Experiment, Participants Are Focused on a Challenging

Multiple Choice

In Simons and Chabris's (1999) experiment, participants are focused on a challenging perceptual task, counting the white team's basketball passes while ignoring the black team's basketball passes.Because of the challenging nature of the task, ______.

A) inattentional blindness is more likely to occur
B) attentional capture of irrelevant stimuli is more likely to occur
C) attention shift is more likely to occur
D) the spotlight model of attention is needed to explain the data