Question

"In an experiment by Simon and Chabris (1999), participants were to watchpeople passing a basketball around, and were told to keep track of someactivity within the game. What was the distinctive feature of the scene andand what proportion of people failed to notice it

Answer 1

The options are

A. during the game, a person in a gorilla suit walked into and out of the scene; almost everyone failed to notice

B. during the game, a person in a gorilla suit walked into and out of the scene, nearly half failed to notice

C. a person in a gorilla suit was one of the ball passers, almost no one failed to notice

D. a person in a gorilla suit was one of the ball passers, nearly half failed to notice

The answer is - A. during the game, gorilla suit walked in and out, almost everyone failed to notice.

The experiment by Simon and Chabris in 1999 involved participants watching people passing a basketball around in order to keep track of some activity within the game. The distinctive feature of the scene in which a proportion of people failed to notice was during the game, gorilla suit walked in and out, almost everyone failed to notice.