PSY 2116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prosopagnosia, Change Blindness, Inattentional Blindness
3 Feb 2016
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Gives us first hand knowledge, demonstration that there is a specialized area of the. High frequencies are the first to go as we age in our ears, our range gets smaller as. Blind sight: respond to visual stimuli that they consciously do not see our environment. The role of attention: focusing on certain stimuli, filtering out other incoming information, 2 different messages in each ear, try to listen to only 1 message. Awareness test: focus on something so much that you filter out something else that is. Change blindness: miss large things, 75% do not see the change occurring when the so obvious person changes (video) Visual attention attentional capture: female subjects noticed more than male because the interviewer was male, inattentional blindness aka change blindness. Failure to notice obvious change in visual scene.
