thanks Dave, This means that there is a system in the brain that decides on the details that we capture from our external environment. Something like an auto focus or a system that increases or decreases the resolution of the picture as it deems fit. We could call this an auto attention focusing system.
It would be interesting to know what kind of priming helps the brain decide these kind of things. What is it that the brain needs to be exposed to get these prejudices. Does this affect our choice of mates. Are we at all free willed? or these filters make us do the things that we do? Cheers, Deepak On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:42 AM, David Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Deepak, > > I have some insight on this question. There was a study regarding change > blindness. One of the study's famous experiments was having a person ask for > directions on a college campus. Then in the middle of this, a door would > pass between the person asking directions and the student giving directions. > What they found is that many people didn't realize the person had changed. > > BUT, 100% of the people that did notice the change were the same age or > younger than the person they were observing! > So, they did another experiment to rule out the different possible > explanations. They took young people and dressed them as construction > workers. Then, they performed the experiment again with similar age groups. > They found that the people that had noticed the change before no longer did! > > Why? Well, the evidence leads us to believe that people pay much closer > attention to the details of people they consider to be similar to them. So, > we notice fewer details when we are observing people of a group we consider > our "out-group". In other words, we don't think we belong to the same group > as the person we are observing. > > That is why asians all look the same to you :) > > I think the purpose of this is analogous to attention. We only learn about > things we consider important. Or we only pay attention to things we think > are important. So, for whatever reason, we think that out-group people are > not as important to us, and we don't need to spend our brain's resources on > remembering details about them. > > Dave > > On Jul 26, 2010 2:58 PM, "deepakjnath" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike, > > All chinese look the same for me. But for a chinese person they don't. Why > is this? Is there another clue here? > > Thanks, > Deepak > > > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > David, > > > > T... > -- > cheers, > Deepak > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > > *agi* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- cheers, Deepak ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=8660244-6e7fb59c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
