This document provides lesson objectives for understanding psychology. It introduces the concept of psychology, different approaches within psychology including cognitive psychology, and recognizing research methods like experiments. It describes performing an experiment on change blindness from cognitive psychology where students time how long it takes to notice differences between images. The document discusses how change blindness experiments provide evidence that people process little of what they see and how this phenomenon has practical implications for eyewitness testimony, distractions, and situations requiring attention like driving or air traffic control.

2. Lesson Objectives
 To understand the basic concept of what is Psychology
 To understand there are different approaches within psychology
 Recognise one research method in psychology
 Understand and relate the topic you have investigated in other
settings in the wider context of applied psychology

4. Sights Smells
Sounds Tastes
Touch

6. Do you remember the
different approaches in
psychology?

12. We are now going to perform another experiment which is from the
field of Cognitive Psychology
Please get a paper and a pen
Write down the time in seconds that it takes you to notice any and
or all the differences in the images.
Good luck

13. http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/se367/10/presentation_local/Change%20Blindness.html

15. Simons, D.J., & Rensink R.A. (2005). Change blindness: Past, present and future: TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences
Vol.9 No.1 January 2005.

17. Change Blindness………
• Cognitive Psychologists theorised that the human
brain processes very little of what it sees.
• So they set out ways to collect empirical evidence to
test the theory.
• We have just done few of the experiments which
were devised.
What does the experiment show us????

18. Why does this matter ?
Discuss for few minutes in your groups
 where the phenomenon of change blindness would
have practical implications

19.  Eye Witness testimonies
 Distractions while driving
 Military command
 airline controllers

20.  To understand the basic concept of what is Psychology
 To understand there are different approaches within
psychology
 Recognise one research method in psychology
 Understand and relate the topic you have investigated of
change blindness in other settings thus becoming applied
psychology