Teaching Civics The Monkey Business Illusion

The Monkey Business Illusion

Posted By llad On April 10, 2018 @ 8:21 pm In | Comments Disabled

by Daniel Simons

Watch this Selective Attention task, part of Psychology research showing that people are less aware of their visual surroundings than they think. This could be used as an introduction to a lesson about eyewitness testimony.

Video (1:41): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY ^[1]

tags: due process, fair trial, Sixth (6th) Amendment, perception

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