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Understanding Change Blindness Effects

The document discusses the phenomenon of change blindness, which is the failure to detect changes in a visual stimulus. It examines factors that can influence change blindness like attention, age, and how objects are presented. It provides an explanation of change blindness and examples of how it can occur in real world settings like air traffic control, driving, eyewitness testimony, and social interactions.

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Understanding Change Blindness Effects

The document discusses the phenomenon of change blindness, which is the failure to detect changes in a visual stimulus. It examines factors that can influence change blindness like attention, age, and how objects are presented. It provides an explanation of change blindness and examples of how it can occur in real world settings like air traffic control, driving, eyewitness testimony, and social interactions.

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Change Blindness

” Change blindness is a phenomenon of visual perception that occurs when a stimulus

undergoes a change without this being noticed by its observer. To date, the effect has been

produced by changing images displayed on screen as well as changing people and objects in an

individual's environment.”

Factors Influencing Change Blindness

 Attention

 Age

 How objects are presented

 The use of psychoactive drugs

 Focused attention and limited resources

 Expectations and past experiences

Explanation

 Change blindness is basically a failure to detect that an object has moved or disappeared

and is the opposite of change detection. The phenomenon of change blindness can be

demonstrated even when the change in question is large.

 According to researchers Daniel Simons and Daniel Levin, our attention is limited. We

have to pick and choose what we focus on. We can only focus on a limited number of

objects at any given time, and it's those few objects that we pay attention to in great

detail. Large volumes of information simply pass by our awareness because we lack the

resources to attend to it.


Change Blindness in Real World

Air Traffic Control:

Disasters and even fatalities could result if an air traffic controller failed to detect changes

when monitoring take-offs, landings, and flight paths.

Driving:

Failure to detect changes in the environment while you are driving can lead to dire, even

fatal, consequences. Researchers have found that distractions like talking on the phone or texting

while you drive can impact attention and lead to increased change blindness.

Eyewitness Testimony:

Researchers have found that change blindness can affect an eyewitness's ability to

recount the details of a crime or to correctly identify the perpetrator.

Social Interactions:

Change blindness can affect our day-to-day social interactions. For example, making a

relatively minor slip-up like asking the wrong waiter for the check when you're dining out.

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