The effects of visual cues on Change Blindness
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published 26/09/2008
 
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Change blindness is a relatively new field of study in psychology, referring to the propensity of individuals to ignore changes in the environment if they are not being actively attended to during one’s interaction. In this study, the question of how cues in the form of descriptive words would effect participant’s ability to detect changes in a short film was explored. Participants were shown a list of random words and cue words before a film in which changes occurred in each shot of the film. After the film, participants were asked to recall the words they had been asked to remember before the film. Those who were able to recall cue words shown before the film were better able to detect changes during the film than students who were unable to recall cue words.
 
 

Table of Contents The effects of visual cues on Change Blindness Table of Contents

 
  1. Abstract.
  2. Introduction.
    1. Change blindness.
    2. Rensink et al's measure of change blindness in 1997 through the use of a flicker paradigm.
    3. Levin and Simons's two experiments in 1997 to demonstrate the effects of change blindness.
    4. Simons and Levin's 1998 experiment on change blindness.
    5. The present study.
  3. Method.
    1. The experiment with twenty-five adult students from Dr. Pappas' evening section of Experimental Psychology.
  4. Results.
  5. Discussion.
 
 
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