What I'll Remember 4 the Rest of My Life

Something that I'l remember for the rest of life from Psychology 1001 will be inattentional blindness and memory illusion. For one, I will remember this because I have experienced it first hand. Thus, when reading about these two concepts in the book, I thought that it didn't apply to my life but sadly I was wrong, and that was all it took for these two concepts to stick with me. It shocked me beyond my own imagination.

For inattentional blindness, we had an experiment in psy discussion, where we were to do what the video asks us to do which was to count the passes of the ball, then later the video asked us if we saw a ape sky walk across, at this point, I was confused. Then, when we watched the video again, everything made sense to me. After going through all this, I was so stunned, there weren't any words to describe how I felt. It was like a wake up call. This lesson taught me that even the littlest things missed can make a big difference. It is that easy to miss something as little as an ape sky walking across the floor. For example, in situations where inattentional blindness can make a big impact would be texting while driving. We may think that there won't be any harm done since we think we are good at multitasking, but we're not because if multitasking was true then how come inattentional blindness exist?

Next, another lesson that I will remember for years to come is memory illusion. For the same reason as inattentional blindness, I will remember this. The reasons to why I think I will remember this concept for many years is as mentioned earlier that it was due to experience. For example, in psy discussion class, we had an experiment where we had to recall what we heard and write it down. To my surprise, I recalled some words that wasn't even read by the section leader. This error occurred multiple times. When I found out about this, I was what they called it "confirmation bias". I couldn't accepted it at first but eventually, I strayed away from confirmation bias. I think that being aware of memory illusion is important because in crime cases, it could make a big difference. You could send an innocent person to jail or accused a person of what you "thought" they said when they didn't say what you "thought" they said.
Overall, because of my first hand experience with inattentional blindness and memory illusion, I will forever remember these two concepts throughout my life. For each concepts, it has taught me a valuable lesson.
What will you remember for the rest of your life from Psy 1001?