Participants are shown a pair of similar pictures separated by a blank interval. the pictures are identical except for a single aspect (e.g., a man is wearing a hat in one scene but not in the other). in these kinds of tasks, participants often find it hard to detect the change. this phenomenon is known as change
This phenomenon is known as change blindness. change blindness refers to people's tendency to not notice the certain change that happens after they're getting used to a certain visual stimulus This phenomenon proof that certain amount of attention is needed by a person to notice a change.