Video On Inattentional Blindness

Short Essay 1 - Video 1 While watching the video in step one, I must admit I was anticipating the narrator to ask a strange question at the end of the video, because I have seen many videos like this one. I was surprised that the narrator did not ask how many times the black team passed the ball around, and instead an entirely different aspect was brought into the video. Just to be sure the video wasn’t playing a joke, and added the bear in later to prove a point, I actually went back and watched the video again. The second time watching the video I was looking for the bear itself, and sure enough the bear was there the first time around. Despite anticipating something odd happening, I did not notice the moonwalking bear the first time. I am not surprised I didn’t see the bear even though it was clear as day, and in the middle of the screen. I think people miss the bear because …show more content…
Inattentional blindness is when we do not notice something that is very obviously in front of us, because we are engaged in something else. Change blindness, is when we don’t notice a change in what is in front of us now, and what was there before it. This relates to the two videos that I just watched. The first video with the moonwalking bear, I experienced inattentional blindness. In the second video, where they changed aspects of the scene, I experienced change blindness. According to Daniel Simon, these two phenomenon occur because people are far less aware of their surroundings than they think they are. I think that I do experience these two things in my everyday life, I can’t tell for sure if I have or not, because unlike the videos I can’t rewind and watch my life over again. However, any time I think something was there when it really wasn’t, or when I thought something was one color but it turned out to be a different color, one of these two types of blindness could be a solution to those