Blindness

that is effectively portrayed throughout the story, contradicts the visions of leaders and alternates the results of their impact on the society. Blindness leads to the downfall of any hero, it obstructs their judgements, which therefore, causes them to fail to see temptations and eventually fall into their nadir. However, the narrator witnesses the blindness of Barbee and Brother Jack, which he recognizes, but does not fully acknowledge it to prevent the same from happening to himself. “For a…

inattentional blindness (and selective attention). In the video, we were asked to count how many times the basketball was thrown between a group of people wearing white T-shirts. While that was going on a gorilla walks into the frame, right in the middle of the screen. Many would think that the majority of people would notice the gorilla, and many would probably think that they themselves would notice that, however, many people fail to see the gorilla because of a term called inattentional…

that ““normal”” people can do?” even though there is no real reason why they can’t. There is no inherent trait that coincides with blindness, being visually impaired does not result in an individual displaying traits commonly associated with being blind (dependency, docility, complacency, neediness, etc.). Nor are traits that are commonly disassociated with blindness any more…

The author focuses on the judicial blindness of eyewitness misidentification of innocent defendants in the U.S. Judicial blindness refers to how the system refuses to initiate a proposal for reform of police procedures, that could in-turn minimize identification error. Viewed in this research are methods such as having lineups and photo arrays to be conducted in person by experts who do not know the suspect, thus minimizing suggestion. What goes un-noticed by the system is that eyewitness…

Hard of Hearing Children and Youth of the Gallaudet Research Institute, Gallaudet University revealed the demographics of deaf or hard hearing (DHH) children and youth with no other conditions and those with other conditions such as low vision, blindness, developmental delay, learning disability, emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairment, intellectual disability, and autism. Out of a total of 32334 DHH children and youth surveyed nationwide with known information, 19741 or 61.1% had no other…

combination of cognitive, developmental, emotional, mental, physical, and sensory impairments. Cultural critic, Georgina Kleege, examines blindness and visual culture from a critical disabilities perspective and renowned scholar, Kelly Fritsch, evaluates the visual implications of marking the wheelchair as the International Symbol for Access (ISA). Kleege criticizes blindness as a metaphor for understanding humanity. Language is deeply ingrained our culture and phrases such as, “I see” or “I get…

Abstract Inattentional blindness (IB) has been a confounding phenomenon of the failures of visual awareness and memory for decades, leaving researchers to debate the extent to which individuals experience the inability to see the unattended. The present study examined the relationship between the effects of IB and expert testimony on the credibility of witnesses in the courtroom. Results indicate that regardless of the presence of expert testimony, the witness who saw the crime was rated…

More importantly, the act of either talking or texting while driving distracts the brain from adequately registering one’s visual field, resulting in what researchers refer to as “inattention blindness” which could result in poor driving decisions; inattention blindness occurs exclusively when talking on a cell phone as opposed to when one is talking to an actual passenger because a passenger tends to “slow down or stop speaking as driving conditions change and…alert drivers to…

America there must be an influx of pure, objective information. Even though egocentric blindness can be difficult to distinguish from egocentric memory there is a key difference. To clarify, egocentric memory tendency to forget evidence and information that rivals preconceived notions but egocentric blindness is the tendency not to notice the information in the first place. To help illustrate egocentric blindness here is an artificial scenario, there is a supporter of Hillary Clinton and a…

In reviewing the article 10 Psychological Studies that Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself (written by Gregoire), I found interesting the 1989 study from Harvard and Kent State University on “change blindness” (as cited by Gregoire). In this experiment the subjects started out talking to one actor. Their view is blocked from the person to whom they are speaking, and another actor steps in to finish the conversation to see if the change is observed by the participant. One half of…