Everyday people think they see something when they really do not. People think that they see something that is not actually there. In the book The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, they explain how the human mind can trick you into seeing or not seeing things. The purpose of the book explains how you can miss the most obvious things and not even know it.
The chapter of the book is about the cop that was beat by other cops. Four black men left a shooting at a hamburger joint in a gold lexus. Several cops from different districts joined in the high-speed chase when they found out the victim was a cop. The suspects crashed into a cul-de-sac and fled from the vehicle. Michael Cox was the first cop to arrive on the scene. …show more content…
They created a video that had people in white t-shirts and people in black t-shirts. Each team is passing a basketball. The instructions for the viewer of the video is to count how many passes the white team makes. In the middle of the video, a student dressed in a gorilla suit walks through the middle, beats its chest, and walks off screen. Around half of the people that watched the video did not see the gorilla. In one of my classes in the past I watched the Invisible Gorilla video. When I watched it I had no idea a gorilla went through the middle of the screen. Chabris and Simons claim that some things our mind blocks out when it is focused on a specific task. In my case it was counting the passes, in officer Conley’s case it was catching Brown III. The video proved that if Conley was truly only focused on Brown III, then it would explain why he did not see officer Cox being …show more content…
When I am driving and in a hurry I only am looking out for the things that I am expecting. I was driving to Champaign one time and was cruising along listening to music and talking to my friends. I was looking out for other cars but I was not expecting a stop sign. I had to slam on the breaks because the stop sign popped up out of nowhere. I liked this book because it explained that our minds can sometimes trick us. Even the smartest people do not always see the most obvious things. They compare different types of people and show how our minds work in similar ways. I liked the gorilla video that they spoke about at the beginning of the book. That video has been showed millions of times and people still do not see the big black gorilla that walks through the middle of the
The chapter of the book is about the cop that was beat by other cops. Four black men left a shooting at a hamburger joint in a gold lexus. Several cops from different districts joined in the high-speed chase when they found out the victim was a cop. The suspects crashed into a cul-de-sac and fled from the vehicle. Michael Cox was the first cop to arrive on the scene. …show more content…
They created a video that had people in white t-shirts and people in black t-shirts. Each team is passing a basketball. The instructions for the viewer of the video is to count how many passes the white team makes. In the middle of the video, a student dressed in a gorilla suit walks through the middle, beats its chest, and walks off screen. Around half of the people that watched the video did not see the gorilla. In one of my classes in the past I watched the Invisible Gorilla video. When I watched it I had no idea a gorilla went through the middle of the screen. Chabris and Simons claim that some things our mind blocks out when it is focused on a specific task. In my case it was counting the passes, in officer Conley’s case it was catching Brown III. The video proved that if Conley was truly only focused on Brown III, then it would explain why he did not see officer Cox being …show more content…
When I am driving and in a hurry I only am looking out for the things that I am expecting. I was driving to Champaign one time and was cruising along listening to music and talking to my friends. I was looking out for other cars but I was not expecting a stop sign. I had to slam on the breaks because the stop sign popped up out of nowhere. I liked this book because it explained that our minds can sometimes trick us. Even the smartest people do not always see the most obvious things. They compare different types of people and show how our minds work in similar ways. I liked the gorilla video that they spoke about at the beginning of the book. That video has been showed millions of times and people still do not see the big black gorilla that walks through the middle of the