
Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1133958475
Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1133958475 Exercise 3
Can you think of situations from your experience that are similar to the change detection experiments in that you missed seeing an object that became easy to see once you knew it was there? What do you think was behind your initial failure to see this object?
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Inattentional blindness experiment. (a) The cross display is presented for five trials. One arm of the cross is slightly longer on each trial. The subject's task is to indicate which arm (horizontal or vertical) is longer. (b) On the sixth trial, the subjects carry out the same task, but a small square is included in the display. After the sixth trial, subjects are asked if they saw anything different than before. Adapted from Lavie, N. (2010). Attention, distraction, and cognitive control under load. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 143-148. Reproduced with permission.

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Inattentional blindness experiment. (a) The cross display is presented for five trials. One arm of the cross is slightly longer on each trial. The subject's task is to indicate which arm (horizontal or vertical) is longer. (b) On the sixth trial, the subjects carry out the same task, but a small square is included in the display. After the sixth trial, subjects are asked if they saw anything different than before. Adapted from Lavie, N. (2010). Attention, distraction, and cognitive control under load. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 143-148. Reproduced with permission.

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