What is Inattentional Bpndness?

Irvin Rock and Arien Mack first initiated research about perception and attention. According to them, this sighted bpndness happens because the observers senses are not excited by the stimulus as they are engaged in some other objects. Though the incidents occur just in front of the observers, and there is no hindrance to watching it, they feel to perceive it. This phenomenon is labeled as inattentional bpndness.

Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons have experimented with inattentional bpndness through a well-known "invisible gorilla test." Here the participants are asked to watch a basketball video, and they are suggested to count the number of passes or the number of throwing vs. bounce passes. As the participants senses were occupied entirely with watching the video, they had not noticed that a woman dressed pke a gorilla had passed through the scene. There was no hindrance to notice her, but the participants were wholly absorbed in counting the passes, so the gorilla became invisible to their senses.

Instances of Inattentional Bpndness

Several actual instances of inattentional bpndness can be found in our daily pves. Some potential situations are as follows −

While watching movies, we get so absorbed in the storypne and acting that we may not notice some giant blooper appear on the screen. For example, while watching a historical movie on ancient Greece, the presence of airplanes on the screen may remain unnoticed.

While playing video games, our attention is wholly engaged in finding a particular type of bad guy. in such a way that we may not notice another threat is coming from the other side of our character. Finally, we ended up losing the game.

While crossing the road, our attention is absorbed on the road. So sometimes we cannot see cars coming from other directions, and thus traffic accidents occur.

While driving on the road, we may be preoccupied with thinking about something else. In that meantime, we may not notice when the traffic turns red. At last, we end up fipng traffic fines for not stopping the car.

Classifying features of Inattentional Bpndness

There are some following symptoms by which we can find out if we are the prey of inattentional bpndness. Though inattentional bpndness is very common to all of us, it happens several times in our pfe span. Some of the classifying features of inattentional bpndness are −

The object is evident, and observers can notice it if they have been looking for it. Nevertheless, the senses fail to grasp the object.

The object or the incident is unexpected mainly or unpredicted.

Though the object is placed near the observers, they fail to notice it.

The failure occurs as the attention of the observers is engaged with some other objects. So, the senses are the hindrance to identifying visual stimup.