Awareness Test

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This is a test to see how well we actually pay attention to what is going on in front of us. Go to the YouTube clip bellow and watch the video. The first time you watch the video, follow the directions of the narrator and carefully pay attention to the number of passes the team in the white makes. 



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This video is a perfect example of how easily our minds can become distracted by outside influences and we can easily miss things that happen all around us. While eyewitness testimonies are are suppose to be very reliable, videos like this reveal a certain margin of error in what we see and what our brains actually process. 

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This video clip is a great example of how people think they know what they are viewing but in reality have no idea. I did exactly what the video instructed me to do. I figured there was something going on in the background they were going to bring to my attention later-but I didn't imagine it would slip under my radar as well as it did.

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