Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (2): 145-150.

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The Effects of Unexpected Stimulus’s Meaningfulness and Position to Inattentional Blindness in College Students

HUANG Shan-shan, GUO Ying-na, ZHENG Xi-fu   

  1. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
  • Online:2012-03-15 Published:2012-03-15

Abstract: When observers focus their eyes on a particular task,they often fail to notice salient and distinctive objects——such phenomenon is termed "inattentional blindness(IB)".It is influenced by low-level properties of the unexpected stimulus,factors occurring after semantic processing of the unexpected stimulus,and observers' characteristics.Inattentional blindness links perception,consciousness and attention.This study examined the effects of position and meaningfulness of unexpected stimulus on inattentional blindness using the static inattentional blindness paradigm,with 80 randomly selected participants taking part in.The results showed that:(1)IB was not significantly influenced by the position of unexpected stimulus.Perhaps whether position could affect IB was not based on the fixation but the zone of attention;(2)IB was significantly influenced by the meaningfulness of unexpected stimulus.No matter what position the unexpected stimulus was presented,the meaningless one(the reversed icon)always had a higher rate of IB than the meaningful one(the smiling face).

Key words: college student, inattentional blindness, unexpected stimulus

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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