Core Studies - Simons And Chabris Study Flashcards
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Inattentional blindness definition
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When attention id diverted to another object or task and observers often fail to perceive an unexpected object even if it appears at fixation
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Aim 1
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To find out whether events that are particularly unusual are ore likely to be detected
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Aim 2
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To investigate the effect of difficulty on inattentional attention
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Aim 3
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To investigate the effect of the unusual superimposition and the transparency of characters in the videos used by Neisser
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Research method
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Lab experiments using an independent measures design
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Number of conditions
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16
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Unexpected events
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- Gorilla walking across screen
- Woman with an umbrella walking across the screen
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Examples of standardisation
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- Same actors recorded on the same day in the same location
- Each video showed 2 teams, one wearing white shirts and another wearing black shirts
- Players in the videos passed the ball in a standard order
- Each video lasted 75 seconds
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Sample
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- 228 participants in total
- Undergraduate students
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Sampling method used to gather participants
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- Volunteer sampling
- some without payment, some offered large candy bar or were paid a single fee
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How many p’s had their data discarded
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36
