During our last small group discussion i have watched a few selective awareness videos and i see what happens but that because i already know that it is a test for that. Yet ill be honest the first time i watched it in class i completely missed everything because i was so focused on doing what the video told me to do. the sad thing was i had even seen it before a few years ago and still i didn't notice the moonwalking bear in the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
This just proves that humans in general can easily miss what is right before their eyes because they weren't previously told that it is there or they weren't told to concentrate on finding it. The funny thing is even though i was doing what they told me which is to watch the passes and count how many were made it was gratifying to know i got that right only to be put down that i didn't notice everything that was going on. Another selective awareness test that we watched was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg which had one guy asking for directions only to swap places with someone else. It was funny to see how people didn't even notice the switch which means their minds were to preoccupied by trying to know the directions. To make it much more interesting they even switched it up from older to younger guy or white guy to black guy and even better man to woman. I thought this was a very entertaining way off learning how we can have a very selective awareness.
