Metacognition and change detection: do lab and life really converge?

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Studies of change blindness indicate that more intentional monitoring of changes is necessary to successfully detect changes as scene complexity increases. However, there have been conflicting reports as to whether people are aware of this relation between intention and successful change detection as scene complexity increases. Here we continue our dialogue with [Beck, M. R., Levin, D. T., & Angelone, B. (2007a). Change blindness blindness:
Beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in change detection. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 31-51; Beck, M. R., Levin, D. T., & Angelone, B. (2007b). Metacognitive errors in change detection:
Lab and life converge. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 58-62] by reporting two experiments that show participants do in fact intuit that more intentional monitoring is needed to detect changes as scene complexity increases. We also discuss how this dialogue illustrates the need for psychological studies to be grounded in measurements taken from real world situations rather than laboratory experiments or questionnaires.

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Author/s: Smilek, Daniel (D); Eastwood, John D (JD); Reynolds, Michael G (MG); Kingstone, Alan (A);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada N2L 3G1. dsmilek(-atsign-)uwaterloo.ca

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Consciousness and cognition (Conscious Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Sep; vol 17 (issue 3) : pp 1056-61

Dates: Created 2008/07/21; Completed 2008/10/02;

PMID: 17888683, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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