Change Blindness

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From Biopsychology

I was very interested after reading about change blindness in Chapter 7. Change blindness is the phenomenon that occurs in which when we view a scene we have no memory for the parts of the scene that were not in our immediate focus. Basically - we do not see obvious things that we are not “looking for” The example they give is not good because the picture is not alternating. I wanted to see if I would react the same way to an obvious gross phenomenon in a scene.

I found the following video. Check it out!

It is not really a change blindness test per se, but it definitely shows that don’t pay attention to things that we are not focusing on!

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