Essay On Change Blindness

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TITLE PAGE INTRODUCTION It is stated that most people strongly believe they have very accurate visual experience. Accordig to them, seeing as a visual perception is considered as the most trustworthy perception which is used to comprehend what is happening in the environment. However, research has shown that visual perception is not very trustworthy as people think (Rensink, n.d). In other words, people overestimate their visual perception accuracy. Although they strongly rely on their senses, they cannot realize the changes in the environment, even in the situations in which they pay attention. These concerns are mainly based on presence of change blindness. Change blindness is a phenomenon that occurs when a change is presented and it is …show more content…

Researchers were curious about the effect of the context and the ability to detect the changes on a change blindness task. According to that, Feil and Mestre (2010) has conducted a research in which they studied with physics experts. In this study, the aim was to see whether physics experts can notice the changes between two physics problems and novices. The research showed that physics experts were more likely to detect the changes between two physics problems (Feil & Mestre, 2010). Based on these findings, we can deduce that being more interested and knowledgeable about a task can effect the change …show more content…

In one of the famous experiment on the change blindness, an experimenter is replaced with another experimenter while he was interacting with a pedestrian by asking how to go to nearby building. Although the clothing, the voice and the appearance of the experimenters were plainly different, the number of subjects who could detect the change was only the half (Simons & Levin, 1998). This can be broadening into other aspects of social interactions like wrongly recalling the waiter that serves you in a