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In class, jacob's teacher tells him she will give him extra credit if he can correctly identify the person and building on the face of the dime, quarter, and half-dollar. jacob cannot identify any of these although he has been handling money. jacob's inability to remember the pictures most likely results from

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The cause could be attentional saturation - where you use or see an item often and know what it looks like.With the cobination of seeing/using it often blurs what it actually looks like or what the details of the item are.
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