User:AbigailG23/Change detection

= Psychology = In psychology, Change Detection refers to the recognition of alterations in the immediate environment. Often used for survival tactics, change detection can be utilized in detecting changes in imagery. For instance, a person who may be unlawfully texting and driving will look up to see what the road looks like and look back down at their phone. However, the next time they look up creates the opportunity for them to use their change detection and decide whether their brakes must be hit. This person will more frequently be unable to make that detection, causing what is known as "change blindness" (Rensink et al. 1997).

Change Blindness
Under a wide variety of settings, change blindness can occur when the changes are large, small, anticipated, and repeated. This is often observed as the polar opposite of change detection.

Studies
Studies on change detection can be organized into three phases: (1) changes in dot arrays and faces, (2) changes in arrays of simple figures, and (3) real world images.