Blind Spots
Results: As expected, after reviewing the results of the blind spot experiment conducted on myself and two additional participants I have confirmed the blind spot is variable in each of the participants. I arrived at this conclusion based on the individual measurements of the height and width of each volunteer left and right eyes blind spot. Which showed that the results varied for each of the volunteers. One point of interest was the average measurements of height in the blind spots for Rita, Mary and Ken were relatively close. However, while Mary and Ken also showed
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Cognitive psychology, which is the study of mental processes such memory, perception, problem-solving, creativity, and thinking (Cognitive psychology Wikipedia, 2016).
Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings develop over the course of their life (Developmental Psychology, 2016).
Each of these fields of psychology would consider performing a blind spot test for various reasons. In developmental psychology, this experiment may be conducted to ascertain whether a person's issues with motor skills were a result of a blind spot. Similarly, cognitive psychology may also utilize this type of testing to determine if individuals experiencing issues with visual perceptions are related to an increase in one or both blind spots. Finally, in behavioral neuroscience, which is the most likely field of psychology that would perform testing for blind spots as a part of testing to diagnose a several neurological or genetic …show more content…
Initially, I provided the incorrect instructions to the participants; I neglected to inform two of the subjects to remove their eyeglasses which required them to have to redo the blind spot test. The reason for the error was poor planning in the initial research phase. These errors created unnecessary confusion and frustration for the participants. As a result, one volunteer decided not to take part in the experiment which led to a delay in completing the testing as I had to locate another volunteer. Another error was not confirming the volunteers wore glasses. The limitations in this experiment were using only participants with vision issues. Had I included people that without vision issues I could have developed a stronger conclusion regarding the impact of vision issues on blind spots versus no vision issues. The overall results of the experiment proved that blind spots in the human eye are
Cognitive psychology, which is the study of mental processes such memory, perception, problem-solving, creativity, and thinking (Cognitive psychology Wikipedia, 2016).
Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings develop over the course of their life (Developmental Psychology, 2016).
Each of these fields of psychology would consider performing a blind spot test for various reasons. In developmental psychology, this experiment may be conducted to ascertain whether a person's issues with motor skills were a result of a blind spot. Similarly, cognitive psychology may also utilize this type of testing to determine if individuals experiencing issues with visual perceptions are related to an increase in one or both blind spots. Finally, in behavioral neuroscience, which is the most likely field of psychology that would perform testing for blind spots as a part of testing to diagnose a several neurological or genetic …show more content…
Initially, I provided the incorrect instructions to the participants; I neglected to inform two of the subjects to remove their eyeglasses which required them to have to redo the blind spot test. The reason for the error was poor planning in the initial research phase. These errors created unnecessary confusion and frustration for the participants. As a result, one volunteer decided not to take part in the experiment which led to a delay in completing the testing as I had to locate another volunteer. Another error was not confirming the volunteers wore glasses. The limitations in this experiment were using only participants with vision issues. Had I included people that without vision issues I could have developed a stronger conclusion regarding the impact of vision issues on blind spots versus no vision issues. The overall results of the experiment proved that blind spots in the human eye are