Blindness

we process information in a distinctive many ways and focus our attention to different things. Nowadays, with research methods, researchers can discover and compare those differences between cultures around the world. In the article, Culture and Blindness, the researchers Takahiko Masuda and Richard E. Nisbett explained the results of studies made to understand the differences between Westerners and East Asians in terms of perceptual processes. The studies examined the propositions related to…

color perception is, color blindness. People with color blindness are not aware of the differences among colors that are obvious to the rest of us. There are three different types of color blindness that have been identified: Deuteranopia – red-green color blindness, Tritanopia – blue-yellow color blindness and total color blindness (National Eye Institute, 2015). Red-green color deficiencies are by far the most common forms of color blindness, this type of color blindness is found in…

religious affiliation and puts them out of context, highlighting the human weakness of seeing the world through a tunnel vision. In the play, this blindness is not only seen in the characters’ attitudes, it is also seen the aforementioned conduct of the french society followed by the characters of the play, making the audience think and laugh at the blindness of the characters and themselves. In the play, the antagonist Tartuffe manages to trick his way into Orgon’s household and gets him to…

guidance was replaced. This research is an example of change blindness, which is a phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual is introduced, and the observer does not notice. I believe the man fail to see the person asking for information because the man might have been preoccupied with other things in his mind and did not care about the physical appearance of the participant asking for information. It is evident that change in blindness can occur due to various factors. For example, if…

In a greek tragedy “Antigone, Sophocles argues that insight is more valuable than eyesight by showing the consequences of blindness to the truth. He uses Tiresias the blind prophet as the basis of insight, he who does not have literal sight sees the inner nature of things. Creon the King of Thebes is used as an example of someone who has who has sight but is blind figuratively to the reality surrounding him. Creon is not the only character who is blind to something. Antigone the protagonist of…

fully blind to truth of who was at fault for this mass hysteria. In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor, Judge Danforth, and Abigail Williams are largely blind to the truth that holds them back from achieving true justice. This blindness most commonly results in the execution of innocent lives who were fundamentally unable to defend themselves. Elizabeth Proctor is misunderstood when it comes to the formalities of…

identity but he was so blind that he would get mad at anyone who try to give him advice. And by the end when he finally force to get some sight and accepted the truth, he blinded himself. Another character in the play that is also deal with the blindness is Teiresias. This character is totally opposite from Oedipus, he was physically blind, but he had the vision into the past, present, and the future. He was the…

Several studies have been conducted on the phenomenon known as inattentive blindness (IB). Although these studies do provide information that is generalizable between different situations, it leaves some important questions unanswered. Therefore, this research study sought to answer these questions: the suspicion that there is no difference in the similarity of the stimuli used in these experiments, task difficulty and its role in identifying the presence of stimuli, and comparisons between…

In Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, King Lear, Lear fatal flaw is his blindness which is evident in the first half of the play when Cordelia is banished, Kent is banished, and when bestowing his kingdom to his older daughters. Firstly, Lear was blind to Cordelia, true intention and purpose of not falsely praising Lear. When Cordelia is asked of her love, she replays “I love your majesty / According to my bond, no more nor less”(1, I,97-98). Cordelia love for Lear was the greatest. Cordelia in the…

“Werner is listening to the repaired transceiver, feathering the turning knob back and forth, when a girl’s voice says directly into his good ear: At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent blow. He thinks: It’s hunger, the fever, I’m imagining things, my mind is forcing the static to coalesce…” (390) Werner Pfennig, crouching with his headphones, is trying to find German frequencies in order to ask for rescue from the new collapsed Hotel of Bees where they are currently trapped. One of…