Attention is a limited resource. Most of the time, people are …show more content…
Most people have, at some point in their lives, witnessed and been tricked by a magical illusion. The methods appear to appropriately address the question. The sample size was quite large, and even though relying on self-report can be dangerous, it was particularly important to do so in this study because part of what they were looking at was how people reasoned through illusions. By looking not only at if people were correctly able to explain a trick or not, but also at previous knowledge and willingness to change explanations, researchers were not only able to study different aspects of attention, but also how people perceived their own experiences (Demacheva et. al,