Video Assignment

Choose a video from the list below. After watching the video, write a summary of the video. Indicate in your summery how the topic of the video relates to sensation and perception. If you like, you can watch more than 1 video because some of them relate to one another.

Guidelines: 300 -500 word summary

Formatting Requirements: Use 12-point Times New Roman or Arial font Use double line spacing in the document 1-inch margins all around 1.

The Attentional Bottleneck Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection [TED] http://youtu.be/GZGY0wPAnus

Apollo Robbins (world famous pickpocket) gives an entertaining demonstration of the limits of attention and how it can be manipulated.

2. Visual Search APS Convention—Visual Search Gets Real, Jeremy Wolfe https://youtu.be/mdnnYtRxdO4

A clip of Jeremy Wolfe of Harvard Medical School delivering the Keynote Address at the Association for Psychological Science’s 22nd Annual Convention in Boston, MA.

3. The Human Visual Search Engine—Jeremy Wolfe https://youtu.be/f7gRIDvPjmk

What types of searches are humans capable of? How can society make search tasks more difficult? Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School Jeremy M. Wolfe explains how we go about our searches.

4. Neurobiology of Attention [ADHD] I Dare You to Watch this Entire Video https://youtu.be/Edx9D2yaOGs (Links to an external site.)

An exposition and demonstration of people’s short attention span these days.

5. Change Blindness NOVA | Inside NOVA: Change Blindness https://youtu.be/VkrrVozZR2c

A recreation of Dan Simons’ famous person-swap experiments.

6. Funniest Japanese Girls Prank https://youtu.be/0CN_HrkBlRs

A form of change blindness that people tend to notice. Two young girls “change into” old men.