Impact of Inattention Blindness on Minds' Vision and Awareness Ability

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Abstract
Inattention blindness phenomenon relates to other similar problems such as change blindness and attentional blink and visual masking. For this reason, there are a lot of literature about the occurrence which has been proven through experiments that involves critical trials that features objects, motions and images appearing unexpectedly while the viewer are preoccupied by other tasks. The study used the colour changing card trick experiment, which featured 836 psychology undergraduate students from who were enrolled in The Human Mind. The participants’ age and gender were not recorded. The objective of the study was to underpin and validate the existing claims about the in attention blindness. The experiment revealed that the participants with no warming recorded a mean of 1.06 changes and a Standard deviation 1.32 changes, whereas the participants with the warning condition recorded a mean of 0.53 changes and a standard deviation and 1.14 changes. The results of the independent samples t-test was t (834) = 5.99, p < .001. The findings revealed that observers’ ability to notice unexpected objects in a scene is lowers when they are warned and improved when they are not warned because alerting tend to cause a distraction where observers tend to perform selective looking.
An Experiment to Demonstrate the Impact of Inattention Blindness on Humans Minds’ Vision and Awareness Ability
Introduction
Imagine you are in an airport situation waiting for an old friend who has been abroad for almost a decade. Standing at the airport’s terminal waiting for your long-time friend to emerge from the crowd of arriving travelers can be difficult since you are not sure of your friend’s appearance after 10 years. Therefore, you will be obliged to be scrutinize careful on each passengers passing to identify any familiar expressions or signal. At this juncture, you are likely to miss any other drama or event that might transpire in your visual field since all of your attention is placed the arrival of the friend and not expecting anything to happen in the background. On the event when one is informed on what to expect, for example a back flip in the crowd of passengers, they will focus much on the expected event hence overlooking any of the succeeding events because familiarity or notification expected does not improve detection of unexpected events. The evidences surrounding this scenario is called international which was established through experimental approaches that were conducted by Arien Mack and Irvin Rock in 1992. Inattention blindness is defined as as psychological phenomenon whereby an individual fails to see or notice events or motions on sight because they had placed more attention on something else, and the the other occurrences are unexpected.
Caters, Chalmers and Ledda (2002) attempted to demonstrate the inattention blindness phenomenon using the eye tracking applications from a computer graphics perspectives. The participants were asked to focus on a cup appearing on a non-moving computer and count the number of pencils inside (Caters, Chalmers, & Ledda, 2012). While counting the pencils,...