Christopher Chabris and Danile Simones documented some of their real life experiments in The Invisible Gorilla How Our Intuition Deceive Us. This book explains how and why these events took place and connects to our everyday lives. These studies portray mental blindness. In addition, it contains six key illusions: attention, knowledge, memory, cause, potential and illusion.
The books open up with the first research project the men did. This included two groups of kids wearing black or white shirts passing a basketball to each other. The subjects were shown a video and given the task to watch how many times the kids with the white shirts passed the ball, and to ignore the ones in the black shirt. During the video a man in a gorilla costume walks in the …show more content…
This quote made me realize that people mostly try to prove a point by showing how vague the opposing argument is. From this quote, I've started to give a better argument for most of my debates whenever I get into an argument. I've been able to win more arguments.
This book impacted my life by being able to brag to my friends about the new knowledge I have gained from the book. Plus, instead of just looking, I can really open up and start to notice something I would have never seen before. The other day I saw my friend pick pocket another friend (as a joke of course). My other friends didn’t see anything happen.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to those who are fascinated with learning more about the brain and how it works. If you are interested in majoring in psychology or minoring in something related to psych, this is the book for you. I found this book extremely interesting and some great extra knowledge to know. The Invisible Gorilla really opened up my mind (and will open up your mind) to the real world and makes you want to pay attention to the finer details in
The books open up with the first research project the men did. This included two groups of kids wearing black or white shirts passing a basketball to each other. The subjects were shown a video and given the task to watch how many times the kids with the white shirts passed the ball, and to ignore the ones in the black shirt. During the video a man in a gorilla costume walks in the …show more content…
This quote made me realize that people mostly try to prove a point by showing how vague the opposing argument is. From this quote, I've started to give a better argument for most of my debates whenever I get into an argument. I've been able to win more arguments.
This book impacted my life by being able to brag to my friends about the new knowledge I have gained from the book. Plus, instead of just looking, I can really open up and start to notice something I would have never seen before. The other day I saw my friend pick pocket another friend (as a joke of course). My other friends didn’t see anything happen.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to those who are fascinated with learning more about the brain and how it works. If you are interested in majoring in psychology or minoring in something related to psych, this is the book for you. I found this book extremely interesting and some great extra knowledge to know. The Invisible Gorilla really opened up my mind (and will open up your mind) to the real world and makes you want to pay attention to the finer details in