Failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you are not attending to it is called:
A) sensory overload.
B) selective attention.
C) inattentional blindness.
D) sensory deprivation.

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Inattentional blindness refers to the phenomenon in which people fail to consciously perceive something they are looking at because they are not attending to it. It occurs when attention is focused on one stimulus, causing people to miss other stimuli in the visual field.

Failure to Consciously Perceive Something You Are Looking at Because