Inattentional blindness

The article entitled “Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events” discusses the theory of inattentional blindness. At its simplest level, inattentional blindness means that we do not always see what is in front of our eyes. Accordingly, experiments were set since the 1970’s to prove this hypothesis. Scientists agree on the fact that perception is the ability to consciously identify the things we see and the changes that occur around us, but according to the authors of the article, the theory that favors our ability to see every single thing is wrong, since we are only able to see or more precisely perceive the small amount of information processed by our brain from the input received through the sight, which…

what inattentional blindness is, how common it is, and the perception of it. This is important because we will be able to determine everything about inattentional blindness. This project is focusing between genders and ages and which will have it more. The hypothesis of this project is that younger kids will have inattentional blindness more than older kids. This paper is hoped to tell you all about inattentional blindness, and how it works. What is inattentional blindness? Inattentional…

to the website (invisiblegorilla) and look at a video. This video was an example of 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,…

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…

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…

Question Change blindness is defined by Matlin as the failure to detect a change in an object or a scene and inattentional blindness is the failure to notice an unexpected and completely visible stimuli while focusing attention on other aspects in a scene (Matlin, 48). Simons and Chabris address the role similarity has between the unexpected and attended events with regard to detection (1999). Simons and Chabris are also looking at the frequency of strange or unusual instances being detected…

Introduction Attention is a complicated concept that refers to what information in our environment is processed. According to many psychologists, objects in the world are only processed if our attention is focused there, meaning many objects can be missed. One phenomenon that explains why we ‘miss’ certain objects is due to inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness is where attention is focused on a certain task and unexpected objects that appear in our visual field may not be noticed…

The most interesting thing I’ve learned in this course was about change blindness. Change blindness is a situation where you do not notice a change between two scenarios. For example, you may not notice a change in hair length between two scenes during a movie. This makes me wonder exactly how many things from my past that I remember wrongfully. I believe I will remember this in five years, because of all the bad things that could happen due to change blindness. Not only was I fascinated that…

Attentional Blink Trevor Endre Dr. Stella Francis PSY363 | Cognitive Psychology Argosy University February 16, 2018 Attentional Blink (AB, or ‘blink’) is “the phenomenon that the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when it appears close in time to the first.” (Prof. Kimron L. Shapiro) Some experts believe that Attentional blink helps the brain ignore distractions while focusing on the original target. In the Cog Lab demonstration, a series of letters and numbers…

Unlike other students in my class, the place where I did my service learning was a little bit different. What made it so different was that there was a lot more, at least I felt, elderly people as opposed to people with disabilities. Sure they may have been a few that if you went there you could maybe tell that they were disabled but honestly, after putting in so many years of visiting nursing homes with multiple groups, I couldn’t even tell if the younger people there were there for the…