The change blindness phenomenon, which is described as changes in the environment that are missed under natural viewing conditions because they occur simultaneously with another visual disruption, was studied from a developmental perspective. Participants included a total of 65 children in 3 age groups, 6, 8, and 10 years, and 20 adults, who were administered a version of the flicker paradigm, a technique in which blank screen is inserted between presentations (Rensink, O'Regan, & Clark, 1997). Participants responded to multiple presentations of 2 objects, positioned side by side, displayed on a computer screen. In each presentation, a distracter object remained unchanged, whereas the target object changed in 1 of 3 ways, color switch, missing part, and rotation. Stimuli consisted of inanimate objects, photographs and drawings, and were displays in either 50 milliseconds or 250 milliseconds. Results revealed that 6 years old participants displayed the highest degrees of change blindness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30795 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Miller, Danny, 1971- |
| Contributors | Burack, Jacob A. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology.) |
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| Relation | alephsysno: 001808128, proquestno: MQ70299, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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