Change Blindness Analysis

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Imagine watching your favorite TV show and there is a change in the scene. The scene does not change completely, just something such as the background color. You may fail to notice the change that has occurred. This inability to notice a change that occurs right in front of you is change blindness. “Change blindness is fail to notice substantial changes in a scene. It is a popular tool for studying scene perception, visual memory, and the link between awareness and attention,”(Ball, Elzemann, and Busch, 2013, p. 689). Change blindness occurs daily and it usually does not have any negative consequences. However, sometimes change blindness can happen while you are driving. For example, you may have been at a stoplight where you had to yield on the green light to turn left. As you began turning, a car seemed to come out of nowhere. A fail to recognize a change is mainly due to the facts that the change was not what you were focusing on, and your brain typically ignores things that are not in your direct focus. If you are told to look for a change, …show more content…
In the puzzle, two pictures that look identical at first are placed side by side and your goal is to find all of the differences. Most people do pretty well with this, but then again they know what the original picture looks like and that they are supposed to look for differences. There is the original scene or picture then a copy of it. “There is a distinction between a copy of the world and what is preserved in memory, knowledge, and reasoning,”(Pani, 2000, p.113). When it comes to everyday change blindness, we are not told that they was a change and we do not know look for it. We have an expectation of what the world should look like, and when something about it changes, our brain does not always recognize it as it being changed or our brain ignores the change. We typically rely on past experiences, memories, and knowledge to perceive the