Question

When watching and listening to a movie with subtitles, a conflict in your senses is created. Should you watch and listen to the action of the movie, or the changing words in the subtitle? When there is a conflict of the senses, one sense will predominate. This is called_____.

Answer 1

Visual capture

Step-by-step explanation:

When two sensory stimuli are presented simultaneously, vision is capable of dominating and capturing the other.

Visual cues are powerful cues that can distract us from other sensations, so when an individual is in an environment, and multiple stimuli reach the brain at once, there is a hierarchy in which vision is on top of this hierarchy and will guide our general perception.

In the example, when we are watching a listening to a movie with subtitles there's a conflict between vision and ear.

When a conflict of this type occurs, the sense that will predominate is vision and this is called visual capture.