Selective attention and inattentional blindness
Selective attention and inattentional blindness
Every visual scene contains more information than we can fully process at once. Selective attention lets us focus on one task or stimulus while filtering out competing input.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR A Level Psychology Simons and Chabris (1999): Visual inattention. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.