diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 347efad57..558def36d 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Brian Maissy
 Brian Okken
 Brianna Laugher
 Bruno Oliveira
+Bryce Gattis
 Cal Jacobson
 Cal Leeming
 Carl Friedrich Bolz
diff --git a/changelog/12245.doc.rst b/changelog/12245.doc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ac753503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/12245.doc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Added paragraph in ``Specifying which tests to run`` documentation to clarify pytest capabilities when trying to run tests for a single module.
diff --git a/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst b/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
index fe46fad2d..b6afb1cda 100644
--- a/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
+++ b/doc/en/how-to/usage.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ Pytest supports several ways to run and select tests from the command-line or fr
 
     pytest test_mod.py
 
+When passing a path as a positional argument, pytest does not recursively
+search when given a file basename. If you want to pass a path to a file, you
+must pass either a relative path or an absolute path. Otherwise, consider the
+below keyword expressions instead.
+
 **Run tests in a directory**
 
 .. code-block:: bash