Group 31 - Do you really notice everything?

Day 1 - Today my group of friends and I picked our topic for psychology fair. Change blindness is our topic, and it is a perceptual phenomenon that happens when a shift in a visual stimulus is unnoticed.

Day 2 - Today my group worked on a student handout that was assigned to us by our teacher. It was difficult to complete it but we got through it. Our assignment consisted of finding reliable sources that explained our psych fair topic. Here is a link to explain what our topic is.

Day 3. Yo its your boy, today my group and i are still working on our student handout and we should have it completed by the end of the period.  We ran into conflict when one of my group members had the same reference as me. We quickly resolved this issue when we realized what had occurred. Regardless i find change blindness to be very interesting and intriguing. It seems to me that there are  not a whole lot of studies referring to change blindness. I will continue my search in the efforts of completing the assignment.

Friday March 11th, Day 4. Today my group and i started working on our new assignment which is due on Monday night. We are supposed to form a hypothesis and identify some variables. Suffering from senioritis is detrimental to the whole process but we are powering through it. Here's to a successful day of progress in psychology.

Day 5, Monday March 14th. My group and i are working on handouts and thinking of what our experiment is going to be like. Our main idea is to have a flash of images in front of someone's face, see if they notice the change. We are going to set up a pc and have someone tell us if they notice the change in a set of images we show them.

Day 6. We have decided that we are going to stick with the slideshow idea. We will need 3 laptops and 3 people to conduct the experiment. Slight changes will occur in every image in the slideshow, mostly the same but slight change. The goal is to see if they notice the change and if they don't, we will tell them what changed. My group and i are working on finishing up our handouts. Psych fair is next week so we have to get all our work done.

Day 7. We are working on our rough draft essay. I'm thinking about the materials we'll need to conduct our experiment today. We need 3 laptops and a power point to display on each computer. Electricity will be required to conduct our experiment properly.

Day 8. We will have completed all of our student handouts by the end of the period. We still have to complete our poster and gather materials for our experiment. All in all everything is coming together.

Day 9. All that's left for us to do is making a poster. The poster's gonna be colorful and eye catching. We gotta get markers glue and scissors to craft it.

Day 10. Today our group is working on our poster, Jake did a great job designing the backdrop for our poster. We're just coloring it in and adding text to the poster. Psych fair is closing in and i know we'll be ready for it.

Day 10. Hello everyone, thank you so much for taking the time to check out my groups blog. Thank you for the feedback and encouragement. We really appreciate it and hope to see you at the fair. Today we're finishing up our poster. The poster looks great, my friend Jake, made a great purple and blue panel design over a black poster. Some of you that viewed the blog asked for the purpose of the experiment, the purpose is to show people that they really do not notice everything that goes on around them.

Day 11. The day of the fair went very well. The amount of people was hectic but we got a good amount of people to participate in our experiment. We proved our hypothesis to be true. Most people that tried our experiment did not notice a change quickly. They really had to try to find the change. We can assume that over 75 percent of students at Sandburg are effected by change blindness.