Essay On Inattentional Blindness

This project is designed to explain what inattentional blindness is, how common it is, and the perception of it. This is important because we will be able to determine everything about inattentional blindness. This project is focusing between genders and ages and which will have it more. The hypothesis of this project is that younger kids will have inattentional blindness more than older kids. This paper is hoped to tell you all about inattentional blindness, and how it works.
What is inattentional blindness? Inattentional blindness is lack of attention and not focusing on what’s happening around you. Infact, you may have inattentional blindness and not realize it. In the tests, people were seen as “blind” to something that was right before their eyes. Say, you’re doing homework you are so concentrated that you begin to lose focus. Inattentional blindness is exactly that. Inattentional blindness is not a defect of any kind. It is simply not having control of concentrating at certain times. …show more content…
Perception is another very important element to be able to understand inattentional blindness. Perception is the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. Perception is also further classified as the normal limits to human perception. Perception is an element of this project that is very useful especially in the test that we used to observe people’s inattentional blindness, Count the F’s, that was explained in the paragraph before.
The main points that were researched were what is inattentional blindness, how common, and the perception of this subject. This project was designed to see which genders and ages have inattentional blindness and how common it is. The hypothesis was predicting that most of the younger volunteers would have inattentional blindness. In conclusion, most of the older kids actually had inattentional blindness. The younger kids seemed to have more focus, even though their brains weren’t as developed as the older