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William L. Schaaf's Study

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A child has a noticeable capacity for attention or concentration, which is an adjustment of the mental faculties, in co-operation with physical faculties, to the reception of certain stimuli in preference to all others. A student concentrating on his textbook is giving attention to his reading, and to his consideration of that reading, above everything else for the moment. His stimulus to such attention is perhaps interest in the subject, or the desire to profit by its study and mastery. William L. Schaaf of Brooklyn College said “When we attend to what we are doing, we concentrate our faculties upon it. This means that we shut out, so far as we can, all distracting stimuli and adjust our muscle as well as our minds to the matter in hand”. Attention constantly shifts, in spite of all we can do. Our thoughts leap momentarily from one thing to another. If you look at a pattern of a wall-paper, you will seem to perceive one arrangement for a moment, and then the arrangement will change. William L. Schaaf by his example he showed that, according to him you cannot separate your two eyes holding a red glass in front of one and blue glass in front of the other, you will seem to see blue for a moment and …show more content…

Rapoport (1999) made clarifications that it affects 3 to 5 percent of all children through a normative data that was gathered, Rapport (1999) finds out that with approximately 60% to 80% of these children experiencing persistence of symptoms into adolescence and adulthood, causing a lifetime of frustrated dreams and emotional pain. There are two types of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: inattentive type and combined type. The symptoms of ADHD can be classified into three categories inattention, hyperactivity, and

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William Kalf (1619-1693) was a great Dutch master who was known for his range of still life paintings ‘Pronkstilleven’, which translates to ‘Ostentatious still life’. This still lifes displayed an array of luxurious possessions that could only reflect the lifestyle of a wealthy human in Holland during the seventeenth century. Venetian glass, Chinese porcelain and Turkish carpets decorated with ornamental gold and silverware were painted as a symbol of status, to be hung in the homes of the wealthy patrons who appointed them. However the choice of such objects are not always for exhibition alone as they sometimes carried a symbolic significance.

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Change blindness is the inability to perceive when a change occurs, commonly due to attention being focused elsewhere. The more that is in a picture, the harder it is to notice changes. In a highly simplistic image, a person employs bottom-up processing, where their attention automatically directs to the change. As the images gradually became more complex with more stimuli, it became harder to find the change as there is too much to focus on. Top-down processing must be used, which takes more effort to use.

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The illusion of attention is related to many different situations where a person should have seen something but did not because their mind was somewhere else. We experience far less of our visual world that we think we do. We are often unaware of aspects that

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Everybody has probably ever experienced it: you are focusing on one thing and then miss something else completely that is happening at the exact same spot as you were focusing on. The term for this observation is inattentional blindness (IB), which means that you are being blind to something that you are not paying attention to (Mack & Rock, 1998). To study this phenomenon, a person should be given an attention-demanding task and during this task an unexpected stimulus should show up. If this person confirms he or she has not seen the stimulus, IB has occurred (Mack & Rock, 1998). For example, a classic and well-known study about IB showed participants a movie of people playing basketball and asked the participants to count the amount of passes

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Fernandez, Gorssi, Thorton, and Neville (2003) looked at electrophysiological markers of attention and awareness. They found that when two versions of a complex image, meaning not simply shapes or numbers, are presented the participants usually do not notice any differences in the two images when there is a separation of time between the first and second image, again, referring to the blank length or mask time. This information was the basis for selecting the specific change blindness test used for this particular research, The Effect of Video Game Graphics on a Person’s Susceptibility to Change Blindness. Tovey and Herdman (2014) make a point to address how familiarity can affect a person’s ability to detect change. This research also indicates that a neutral image is crucial to get proper data.

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