![]() This is an award given to those scientific activities that “first make you laugh and then make you think”. Some think that they’ve been shown two different videos, but, of course, this isn’t the case. When they’re asked to watch the video again, they all see the gorilla without a problem. ![]() The first time the invisible gorilla experiment was conducted, and all subsequent ones, most of those who participated and didn’t notice the presence of the gorilla were amazed at how clear it all was! It seemed impossible to them that they had overlooked something so obvious. Did you see it? The reactions to what happened Yes, there was a gorilla in the video, but more than half of the people didn’t notice it. Whenever the experiment has been repeated, the percentage of surprise is more or less the same. The last question was the one that surprised the volunteers of the invisible gorilla experiment the most. “Or did you notice anyone other than the players?”.“Did you notice anything else besides the players?.“Did you notice anything unusual while counting the passes?”.When the participants finished watching the video, they were asked the following questions (answer them as well if you watched the video): ![]() You have to be attentive and take into account both the air passes and the bounce passes.Ī couple of paragraphs above, we gave you the same instructions that Chabris and Simons gave to a group of student volunteers before doing the experiment.Just count the number of passes that the white shirt team makes to each other.The rest of the article will make more sense if you do! If you want to do the experiment yourself, just watch the following video and follow the instructions, before you continue reading. It’s been replicated countless times, in different countries and with people of all ages and educational levels, with very similar results. The creators of the invisible gorilla experiment, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, never imagined that this experiment would awaken so much curiosity and become so popular. It also illustrates how people don’t like to accept the fact that they’re often blind to the world around them. Although it was conducted for the first time in 1999, it’s still cited as a typical example of the limitations of perception. The invisible gorilla experiment has become a psychology classic. ![]()
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