Malaya walked into a room. she immediately noticed the strange colored carpet. juan walked into that same room, but did not pay any attention to the carpet. what process of perception was this?

Selective perception

Explanation:

Selective perception refers to how we selective perceive things when we find ourselves paying attention to only the information that appeals to us and ignore that which doesn't.

We tend to perceptual block whatever information that goes against our belief or attitudes.

In a world that is full of many things we need to pay attention to, it is very likely that we will zoom in to only those that matters to us or only those that we are interested in and block those that we have no interest in.

Malaya is most likely interested in interior design such that when she gets into a room, features of that room will capture her interest whereas Juan is most likely not interested in any of that stuff in a way that even when she enters the room she blocks the attention to how the room looks like.

Their interest are not the same which result into how they differently select what they perceive.