How many times does the ball get passed gorilla?

They pass the ball player-to-player 14 times, if you consider bouncing to be ‘throwing’ then they throw it 22 times.

How do you test for selective attention?

Selective attention is typically measured by instructing participants to join some sources of information, but to ignore others at the same time and then determine their effectiveness in doing so.

What is an example of spotlight attention?

This attentional spotlight also explains how our unconscious can take control of our field of vision. For instance, if there is a sense of danger in our periphery it ‘takes over’ the attentional focus as if something is being thrown at you from your extreme left.

What is selective attention psychology?

Selective attention refers to the processes that allow an individual to select and focus on particular input for further processing while simultaneously suppressing irrelevant or distracting information.

What is sustained attention in psychology?

Sustained attention refers to the ability to maintain attentional focus on relevant stimuli with repeated presentation over extended periods. Vigilance tasks are the prototypic procedure used for measuring sustained attention.

What is attention in cognitive psychology?

Attention is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete stimulus while ignoring other perceivable stimuli. Attention comes into play in many psychological topics, including memory (stimuli that are more attended to are better remembered), vision, and cognitive load.

What did the Gorilla experiment reveal about human behavior?

It was as though the gorilla was invisible. This experiment reveals two things: that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and that we have no idea that we are missing so much. To our surprise, it has become one of the best-known experiments in psychology.

What is the ‘Invisible Gorilla’ Test?

The so-called “invisible gorilla” test had volunteers watching a video where two groups of people — some dressed in white, some in black — are passing basketballs around. The volunteers were asked to count the passes among players dressed in white while ignoring the passes of those in black.

Did you miss the gorilla in the basketball video?

Photo illustration by Diana Yates. A dumbfounding study roughly a decade ago that many now find hard to believe revealed that if people are asked to focus on a video of other people passing basketballs, about half of watchers missed a person in a gorilla suit walking in and out of the scene thumping its chest.

How many of the participants failed to see the gorilla?

In this initial experiment, 50% of the participants failed to see the gorilla! This case supports the existence of inattentional blindness (also known as perceptual blindness.) Chabris and Simons describe the research that has gone into this phenomenon in their 2010 book The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.