Thursday, September 29, 2011

did you see the gorilla or not? what about the other clips? talk a little bit about your experience this morning

 I thought the video experiment was very interesting. For example the basketball clip, i did see the gorilla come in but i didnt know it was a gorilla. i thought it was another player added to the basketball game. i didn't know it was a gut in a gorilla suit  and that it left the scene before i was told.
 the flashing test and the slow test got me thinking that each person is good at spotting different things. maybe where we grew up changes the things we see. the environment i lived in was  ether a very busy city like Beijing, Seoul or a very remote town like Tauranga ( a place in New Zealand,  there are a lot of farms and motor racing places). so when i was shown   the farm scene i was able to spot the differences very fast, but when i was shown a place like pairs i could spot the differences
 the movie clip was the most difficult. it was hard to spot all the differences since i didn't know how many there will be and because i was starting to pay attention to what the people were saying. maybe this could be the same with real movies. if we turn the sound off we might be able to find differences between the scenes.

 i think this experiment is very useful. like what the teacher said it could be used in police investigations. or to increase our awareness in daily life.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Mark,

    I like your observations about how our experiences shape our perception of reality and allow us in some situations an advantage and in others a disadvantage. Good job!

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