In one experiment, many of the research participants who were keeping track of basketball tosses between players failed to notice a gorilla-suited research assistant thumping his chest as he moved among the players. This best illustrated .A) blindsight. B) the popout phenomenon. C) inattentional blindness. D) the cocktail party effect.

C) inattentional blindness.              

Explanation:

Inattentional blindness is described as an individual's failure or incapability to notice something which is a full-visible yet unexpected object due to the fact that his or her attention was engaged or evolved on some other object, task, or event. Every individual tends to experience "inattentional blindness" in day-to-day life in any of the potential situations.

Inattentional blindness is often considered as dangerous as people sometimes do not attend to information that can be harmful.

In the question above, the given statement best illustrates inattentional blindness.

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