Lab Report Writing
2007PSY Mt Gravatt 3
2007PSY Biological Psychology, Mt Gravatt 2017
Tutorial Week 3 – Visual Change Blindness Experiment
Be sure to bring this Week 3 practical handout to class. You will need to it record your responses on the next page.
People fail to detect large changes in successive views of scenes, despite lengthy inspection times, when the views do not immediately follow one another but are separate by a blanking period. This inability to detect changes across visual scene is known as change blindness. People are very poor at this task and there are many versions of this effect.
Following Mondy and Coltheart (2000), we will examine how three different types of scene changes determine the level of inability to see the change. The three types of changes are: addition of objects, subtraction of objects and neither addition nor removal: objects are changed in location of colour.
Virtually all of this week’s tutorial will involve running the experiment and gathering data from you, the participants. Once the data has been collected, there will be a short discussion on some of the theories of change blindness.
But for now, let’s get serious and let’s do research and gather some data.
Visual Change Blindness Experiment Record Sheet
Please place a tick () in the columns for each slide pair presented
Addition: Some object(s) has/have been added
Subtraction: Some object(s) has/have been removed
Other: Some object(s) has/have been moved or changed colour
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Please record the number correct out of 8
| Change Type | Add up the following Slides (Numbers will be given in class) | Result (out of 8) |
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