Reaction to the Gorrilla Experiment
When you sent the link to the experiment, I immediately clicked on it because I was curious about what it was about. Mm, it might have been better if I hadn't known that the title of the experiment was "The Gorrilla Experiment".
When I saw the title, I immediately thought "Oh, I'm guessing that there's going to be a gorrilla that comes out at some point in this experiment.". Even as I was counting the number of passes, as the video instructed, my mind contiuously waited for a gorrilla to pop out. When a gorrilla did suddenly casually walk in the scene, I felt so satisfied ("Ha! I was right!") that I got slightly distracted from counting. At the end of the video, they revealed the correct number of passes (I believe it was fifteen) which I had a little less due to slight moment of inattention. And when lastly the video asked "But did you notice the gorrilla?", I thought proudly "Yes I did".
The effect of this experiment might have been different if I hadn't seen its title. Mm, if I do try it out on someone else, I will not disclose that information for sure, because it changes the disposition of the participant and affects the outcome.
At the same time, this experiment and the way that I perceived it made me think about how our knowledge affects an effect. The reason I expected, had the presentiment, that a gorrilla would emerge in the scene was because of what we had talked about in class (how people did not notice things when they were preoccupied by some other task). I assumed this video would expect the participant to be fooled by a similar trick. Individuals really cannot go through exactly the same experience because our knowledge is different and prepares us in differeny ways.
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