Topic 4 - Visual Inattention

Question 1

What was the aim?

Answer 1

To confirm inattentional blindness occurs in a realistic complex situation

Question 2

What was the sample?

Answer 2

228 participants - mainly undergrads from Harvard University

Question 3

What was the method?

Answer 3

Watched videos of basketball and were given a task to do - participants were then asked whether they saw the unexpected event

Question 4

What was the conclusion?

Answer 4

Inattentional blindness occurs in dynamic events that are sustained

Question 5

What were the applications?

Answer 5

Barristers could use it to discredit eyewitness testimony - and they could be able to point out a number of factors. Made it more likely for an unexpected event to be noticed