Limits of attention 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyLimits of AttentionUniversityAll boards Created by: benhartley96Created on: 05-12-16 22:24 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) 1 of 16 Inattention Blindness - what is it? Failure to detect an unexpected object appearing in the visual environment 2 of 16 What study is related to IAB and who is it by? Invisible gorilla experiment - Simons & Chabris (1999) - 50% failed to see gorilla 3 of 16 Change Blindness - what is it? Failure to detect an object that has moved or disappeared 4 of 16 How can we induce change blindness? Occlusion-contingent change / Gap-contingent change / Saccade-contingent change / Blink-contingent change 5 of 16 How can we explain change blindness? (2 theories) Coherence Theory & Theory of Scene Perception 6 of 16 Coherence theory - who is it by? Rensink (2000, 2002) 7 of 16 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 8 of 16 Coherence theory - stage 2 Focused attention stage - detailed & longer lasting rep of object formed - allows rep to withstand brief interruption and not be replaced 9 of 16 Coherence theory - stage 3 Focused attention removed - representation disintegrates and returns to liable state in was in in stage 1 10 of 16 Theory of Scene Perception - who's it by? Hollingworth & Henderson (2002) / Simons (2000) 11 of 16 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 12 of 16 Which theory is supported by Hollingworth & Henderson (2002) study? S.P.Theory 13 of 16 Type changes are...? ...when an object is replaced by another object in a different category (e.g. plate --> book) 14 of 16 Token changes are...? ...when an object is replaced by another object in the same category (e.g. plate --> another plate) 15 of 16 Which changes are easier to detect? Type changes 16 of 16
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