Limits of attention

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1998 - Door study - what and who by?
Simons & Levin (1998) - stranger asks for directions - 2 men walk in between w door, experimenter changes (8/15 didn't notice)
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Inattention Blindness - what is it?
Failure to detect an unexpected object appearing in the visual environment
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What study is related to IAB and who is it by?
Invisible gorilla experiment - Simons & Chabris (1999) - 50% failed to see gorilla
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Change Blindness - what is it?
Failure to detect an object that has moved or disappeared
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How can we induce change blindness?
Occlusion-contingent change / Gap-contingent change / Saccade-contingent change / Blink-contingent change
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How can we explain change blindness? (2 theories)
Coherence Theory & Theory of Scene Perception
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Coherence theory - who is it by?
Rensink (2000, 2002)
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Coherence theory - stage 1
Parallel stage - prior to focused attention - representation of several objects produced by lack stability so are rapidly replaced by new stimuli
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Coherence theory - stage 2
Focused attention stage - detailed & longer lasting rep of object formed - allows rep to withstand brief interruption and not be replaced
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Coherence theory - stage 3
Focused attention removed - representation disintegrates and returns to liable state in was in in stage 1
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Theory of Scene Perception - who's it by?
Hollingworth & Henderson (2002) / Simons (2000)
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S.P.Theory - what is it?
Says detailed representations of objects in focus are formed - these are put into a mental map of a scene and stored in the LTM
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Which theory is supported by Hollingworth & Henderson (2002) study?
S.P.Theory
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Type changes are...?
...when an object is replaced by another object in a different category (e.g. plate --> book)
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Token changes are...?
...when an object is replaced by another object in the same category (e.g. plate --> another plate)
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Which changes are easier to detect?
Type changes
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