I have watched this video for a few other psych classes and I still remember the first time I saw it, I couldn't believe I missed a gorilla. It is amazing how selective you can be about what you are looking at when you are looking for something in particular.
This is definitely a great example of selective attention. The first time I saw this online I actually had to rewind to make sure that I wasnt being duped. I was soley focused on the task at hand and had no idea what was going on besides the passes.
I have also seen this video before and find it funny how are visual system can be so selective. Selective attention is the form of attention involved when processing is restricted to a subset of the possible stimuli.
o wow! i missed it too! I was so focused on counting... it is amazing how can we missed such big things when we try to focus on look on something specific.
What I find so interesting about this clip is that I could tell you after the clip that there were elevators, around 6 people, a basketball; However I could not see the gorilla. A object that sticks out and is clearly out of the ordinary. I think that this clip hints about our expectations of what we are going to see.
I've actually seen this done in a different video. The other video was done much better because in that one, I didn't see the gorilla at all. In this video, I noticed the gorilla as soon as it entered the scene. I'm not sure why this was. Maybe I was expecting something to happen so I concentrated on the whole scene instead of just the passing, which I missed by 2 counts. It is amazing, however, how when we're focused on something, we tend to ignore other things.
I can't believe how easy it is to miss something so obvious. This really focuses in on how our attention can be distracted from something just by concentrating on a situation. Attention is defined as any of the very large set of selective processes in the brain. Selective attention, however, is defined as teh form of attention involved when processing is restricted to a subset of the possible stimuli. So it is the ability to pic one out of many stimuli. When we are looking so hard for one certain thing, we didn't realize certain other things in the background. I couldn't tell you what any of the people looked like or that the gorilla walked through. All I could tell you from this video is that there were about 3 people in white shirts and 3 in black shirts (or around that number) of both genders.
I can still remember being amazed the first time i saw this video in intro to psych. Im still surprised at how easy it is for us to miss such an obvious thing.
i saw the gorilla come into the scene which through my counts off by a few. I can see why people didn't catch the gorilla at first though. If our expectations are to only see people wearing black and white with the basketball a gorilla would just be another player or we would be so concentrated on the white players that we would not notice it at all. I must have been looking at a random place at the right time to notice the gorilla come into the picture.
This is a good example of selective attention for someone who has never seen it before, but I have seen it in another psychology class so I wasn't able to not focus on the gorilla when it came into the scene. its just hard to forget it once you've already seen it, kind of like a picture that has a lamp or two faces and you can see one or the other right away and can't stop seeing it.
This video of selective attetion blows my mind everytime I see it. I think back to the very first time I saw it and I really did NOT see the gorilla! My mind was too focused on counting the number of passes. The research behind this video is brilliant! To me it really raises the question on how valid things like eye witness testimony is. The reason I say this is because in a scene there are way more than one thing going on at one time. Our brain simply cannot focus completely on more than one thing at once. This video is evidence of this. The psychology behind this is that our brain cannot process all of the imput from our senses. In vision, it is only possible to direct attention to one thing or one loaction at once. I showed this video to two of my friends and both of them also missed the gorilla. They were also very amazed as how little we really pay attention to.
I have watched this video for a few other psych classes and I still remember the first time I saw it, I couldn't believe I missed a gorilla. It is amazing how selective you can be about what you are looking at when you are looking for something in particular.
This is definitely a great example of selective attention. The first time I saw this online I actually had to rewind to make sure that I wasnt being duped. I was soley focused on the task at hand and had no idea what was going on besides the passes.
I have also seen this video before and find it funny how are visual system can be so selective. Selective attention is the form of attention involved when processing is restricted to a subset of the possible stimuli.
o wow! i missed it too! I was so focused on counting... it is amazing how can we missed such big things when we try to focus on look on something specific.
What I find so interesting about this clip is that I could tell you after the clip that there were elevators, around 6 people, a basketball; However I could not see the gorilla. A object that sticks out and is clearly out of the ordinary. I think that this clip hints about our expectations of what we are going to see.
I've actually seen this done in a different video. The other video was done much better because in that one, I didn't see the gorilla at all. In this video, I noticed the gorilla as soon as it entered the scene. I'm not sure why this was. Maybe I was expecting something to happen so I concentrated on the whole scene instead of just the passing, which I missed by 2 counts. It is amazing, however, how when we're focused on something, we tend to ignore other things.
I can't believe how easy it is to miss something so obvious. This really focuses in on how our attention can be distracted from something just by concentrating on a situation. Attention is defined as any of the very large set of selective processes in the brain. Selective attention, however, is defined as teh form of attention involved when processing is restricted to a subset of the possible stimuli. So it is the ability to pic one out of many stimuli. When we are looking so hard for one certain thing, we didn't realize certain other things in the background. I couldn't tell you what any of the people looked like or that the gorilla walked through. All I could tell you from this video is that there were about 3 people in white shirts and 3 in black shirts (or around that number) of both genders.
I can still remember being amazed the first time i saw this video in intro to psych. Im still surprised at how easy it is for us to miss such an obvious thing.
i saw the gorilla come into the scene which through my counts off by a few. I can see why people didn't catch the gorilla at first though. If our expectations are to only see people wearing black and white with the basketball a gorilla would just be another player or we would be so concentrated on the white players that we would not notice it at all. I must have been looking at a random place at the right time to notice the gorilla come into the picture.
This is a good example of selective attention for someone who has never seen it before, but I have seen it in another psychology class so I wasn't able to not focus on the gorilla when it came into the scene. its just hard to forget it once you've already seen it, kind of like a picture that has a lamp or two faces and you can see one or the other right away and can't stop seeing it.
This video of selective attetion blows my mind everytime I see it. I think back to the very first time I saw it and I really did NOT see the gorilla! My mind was too focused on counting the number of passes. The research behind this video is brilliant! To me it really raises the question on how valid things like eye witness testimony is. The reason I say this is because in a scene there are way more than one thing going on at one time. Our brain simply cannot focus completely on more than one thing at once. This video is evidence of this. The psychology behind this is that our brain cannot process all of the imput from our senses. In vision, it is only possible to direct attention to one thing or one loaction at once. I showed this video to two of my friends and both of them also missed the gorilla. They were also very amazed as how little we really pay attention to.