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Scientific Summary The article I chose is a article researching the theory that when a human being reaches adulthood they still have tendencies to trust their vision more than they should. In other words, they somewhat have the habit to believe their vision can provide more information that is not determined by actual vision. Jessica Wang, a scientist and student at Northrumbia university has tested this theory with a experiment which supports information of this theory.These new results suggest something else is going on. In adulthood, even when we fully understand at a conceptual level that it's not possible, it takes us a moment to suppress the instinct to believe that vision does supply that information(BPS Research) The container was built such that a person could only identify the colour of the object inside by lifting up a cover; could only determine its temperature by putting their finger in a hole in the side; and could only judge the object's weight by lifting an attached string. The students were told that the box could contain one of eight identically shaped objects that varied according to their colour (green or white), their temperature (warm or cold) and weight (light or heavy). (BPS Researcher) With this in mind the researchers provided a series of photos of a person either lifting the string or touching the side of the box. They would ask the students questions. For example, they would show a picture of a man touching the side of the box and ask the student if the box was hot or not. The student would then hesistate. The theory here is that the student paused because he or she had to shake the instinct to answer the question using her vision(which is impossible). I think this goes well with barrets law 9:beware the plausible. The only problem here is that the student could have paused because of nerves or anxiety. Therefore the method is a little faulty. Overall it does shed some light on the development of a human's vision and comphension skills. It is not in the texbook that much but i think overtime when the data becomes more stable it will eventually gain more momentum and get placed in the text books.

Wang JJ, Diana Miletich D, Ramsey R, & Samson D (2014). Adults see vision to be more informative than it is. Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 1-14 PMID: Bps Reasearch

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