After watching the demonstration of the basketball game and the gorilla, I decided I wanted to find out if any of my friends would experience inattentional blindness. I showed the three videos on our class blog page to two of my friends. The one friend, Kavitha, demonstrated inattentional blindness on all three videos. The other friend, Maria, did not show any signs of inattentional blindness and noticed the changes in all three clips. Strangely enough, I only demonstrated inattentional blindness on the video of the farm house and the grass. With all three of us experiencing different things, I was able to see that this phenomenon is very subjective.  

After watching the three videos my friend Kavitha began to worry. She said that if she missed all three things in these videos; how many other things does she miss in life? We all started thinking about it and realized that actually Kavitha does have a tendency to miss things. For example, earlier today the three of us were walking down the sidewalk and I tripped. Both Maria and I started laughing and Kavitha looked over at us with a puzzled look. She completely missed the fact that I had almost fallen; she was too busy paying attention to what Maria had been talking about. On the other hand, Maria is always the one who notices the little things. She will notice when the slightest thing changes. Whether it be something in her field of vision, or if it is something that has been moved in her room. 

 I guess I would have to be the third type of person. The person who sometimes notices changes and other times does not. I think that maybe this has to do with something else we have talked about recently. It may be related to object vs. Face recognition. I noticed when there was a change and it was a person/animal, but did not notice the change when it was in the environment. I put most of my focus on animated living things. I must be comfortable just getting the gist of the surrounding but when it comes to people, I need to see the details.

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