PS101

Answer Sheet for Assignment 2

Spring, 2015

STUDENT NAME: Bryan Calci

DISCUSSION SECTION: D3
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Illusions use the concepts people already have to

take their brain to other places and turn the world
upside down. If you can take their attention to
another place willingly then you have succeeded
as an illusionist.
The brain cannot not focus on everything at once
and prioritizes the focus on certain things. The
Apollo trick influenced our brains to focus on the
money, which was front and center, so that we
would be less likely to notice the other
background aspects that did change.
Attention is what we focus on in our visual
environment. It allows us to select some aspects
of our world to be seen and others to be ignored
or filtered out of our awareness.
Change blindness is the failure to notice
surprisingly large changes from one moment to
the next.
12 Watts is needed to power the brain.
The pre frontal cortex and the parietal lobe are
the switching stations.
C. Spotlight
It is called the flicker test.
People feel to notice that the person talking to
them behind the counter switched.
The data suggests that 1 in 3 recognize the
switch.
The illusion of attention is that we miss sort of
changes similar to the ones in Game 3 but also
expect that we are going to notice them.
Apollo is manipulating the brains ability to focus
by distracting the victims utilizing their top down
attention and bottom up attention.
1. Top Down Attention is decision making
attention. It uses the pre-frontal cortex which
helps out with advanced decision making and
planning.

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2. Bottom Up Attention is where something grabs

your focus. It uses the sensory cortices.
His research shows us that people are usually
not the good multitaskers that they think they are.
Multi-tasking is achieved by switching attention
back and forth between tasks.
Inattention blindness is a failure to notice
something unexpected when your attention is
focused on something else.
The car turns left in front of the motorcycle and
are looking for other cars but dont see the
motorcycle because the driver is focusing their
attention on looking out for cars.
It is called the stroop effect.
It relies on interfering signals in your brain that
compete for your attention. These areas are the
ventral stream, where color is processed, and the
occipital and temporal lobes, where reading is
processed.