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9780262621816

Thinking and Seeing : Visual Metacognition in Adults and Children

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    9780262621816

  • ISBN10:

    0262621819

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-01
  • Publisher: Bradford Books

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Experimental research has shown that people miss apparently obvious visual discontinuities -- a phenomenon known as "change blindness." For example, in one experiment, subjects watching a brief film of a conversation between two actors did not notice that in some shots one actor appeared wearing a large, colorful scarf and in other shots she wore no scarf; in another experiment, subjects did not even notice when one actor was replaced by another between shots. Moreover, when told what they had missed, many subjects were incredulous, and occasionally even insisted that the film they had seen had not included anything unusual ("change blindness blindness"). This kind of conflict between actual and presumed cognitive functioning has been analyzed in other areas of metacognition; the contributors to Thinking and Seeingexplore the implications for vision, which have remained largely unexamined. Doing so, they make important connections among diverse areas in cognitive science and provide a starting point for new research on how people think about seeing. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of the work in this field, the contributors draw on developing theories of the mind to explore the foundations of metacognitive understanding in children and metacognition errors by adults; on traditional metacognition research to analyze potential connections between research on problem solving and vision; on research in folk psychology and concepts to examine "the illusion of explanatory depth" and how systematic our understanding of seeing is; and on an understanding of the relationship between consciousness and cognitive control of ongoing tasks.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(12)
Daniel T. Levin
Chapter 1 Development of Knowledge about Vision 13(24)
John H. Flavell
Chapter 2 Action Analysis and Change Blindness: Possible Links 37(20)
Megan M. Saylor and Dare A. Baldwin
Chapter 3 Young Children's Awareness of Their Own Lexical Ignorance: Relations to Word Mapping, Memory Processes, and Beliefs about Change Detection 57(18)
William E. Merriman and John M. Marazita
Chapter 4 Visual Metacognition and the Development of Size Constancy 75(22)
Carl E. Granrud
Chapter 5 The Odd Belief That Rays Exit the Eye during Vision 97(24)
Gerald A. Winer and Jane E. Cottrell
Chapter 6 Thinking about Seeing: Spanning the Difference between Metacognitive Failure and Success 121(24)
Daniel T. Levin and Melissa R. Beck
Chapter 7 "Change Blindness" Blindness: An Implicit Measure of a Metacognitive Error 145(20)
Brian J. Scholl, Daniel J. Simons, and Daniel T. Levin
Chapter 8 Individual Differences in the Visual Representation of Scenes 165(22)
Heather L. Pringle, Arthur F. Kramer, and David E. Irwin
Chapter 9 Visual versus Verbal Metacognition: Are They Really Different? 187(16)
Rachel A. Diana and Lynne M. Reder
Chapter 10 Zoning Out while Reading: Evidence for Dissociations between Experience and Metaconsciousness 203(24)
Jonathan W. Schooler, Erik D. Reichle, and David V. Halpern
Chapter 11 What Lies Beneath? Understanding the Limits of Understanding 227(24)
Frank C. Keil, Leonid Rozenblit, and Candice M. Mills
Chapter 12 Misunderstanding Ability, Misallocating Responsibility 251(26)
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
About the Contributors 277(6)
Index 283

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