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Question 8

In Simons and Chabris's (1999) study on visual inattention, participants completed either an 'easy' or a 'hard' monitoring task.

Explain the purpose of manipulating task difficulty in this study and describe how this manipulation affected the detection of the unexpected event.

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Attention Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Attention

33 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Attention, covering Moray (1959): Auditory attention and Simons and Chabris (1999): Visual inattention. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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