Change Blindness

When enforcing the law, for police officers not two situations they encounter are ever the same, even when examine a large number of situations over an extended period of time. The officers are usually in the

The sample of patrol officers will then be assigned subgroups on the amount of time they have worked in patrol. This research will be comparing the secondary data for the two years prior to body-worn cameras and the two years after body-worn cameras. Because of the time frame being studied, officers with less than four years of patrol experience will not be examined. This allows officers to be assigned to subgroups of years in patrol by four year groupings. For example, 4-8 years, 9-13 years, 14-17 years. These groups will continue to the 30 year retirement standard in North Carolina law enforcement. The officers in the patrol division will be placed in a subgroup. The random sampling drawn from the patrol division will be proportionate to the makeup of the subgroups. This proportional stratified sampling will provide the most accurate depiction of proactive policing of patrol officers equipped with body-worn

It is often found that body cameras help boost behavior among interactions of individuals during police encounters. A study presented in ABC News, looked at the effect of body cameras in society, “However, in the 2012 study researchers found by adding a camera, participants had more “public self-awareness” and as a result were more likely to act and help” (Mohney). When society realizes the body cameras can see their actions, they adapt and act in the most ideal way for the situation. Another study among criminologists stated, “Criminologists say the cameras bestow a civilizing effect” (Boone and Schneider). Brunswick News added to this, “Whether its [body camera] on or not, people act completely different when they see you [officer] wearing a body camera” (Brunswick News).

Change blindness is a phenomenon in attention where drastic changes to a scene can go unnoticed. This is important to the field of Human Sensation and Perception because it helps illustrate how a visual scene is processed. Specifically it shows how even if there is direct attention to a scene, there are times when drastic changes can occur without perception of the change occurring. With extensive research already conducted illustrating this effect, new research has recently been conducted studying different types of scene changes in the hopes of understanding which changes are easier or harder to notice. The results of these studies were quantified by the measurement of change detection time (usually reported in seconds). This subset of change blindness research has far-reaching practical applications, especially in the field of security and law enforcement. By applying the knowledge of which type of stimuli lead to longer change detection times training programs could be developed that allow this population to improve their observation skills.

This experiment was conducted to see if the body cameras would improve relationships with the public. “BWCs were allocated to all frontline officers in one for a period of six months (July 23, 2014–December 15, 2014), but not to any other frontline officers of the other five geographic districts ( officers=513). The single geographic district was therefore the treatment area, while each of the five other districts served as comparison sites”(). Arrests, complaints, 911 calls and the use of force were monitored through the cameras to improve the results of the BWC experiments. So far, the results of the experiments turned out to be neutral; the BWC experiment did not see a significant increase or decrease of calls or arrests, but complaints

Many experts look at experts’ looks at data and research. Great experts find out and test their research. Traditional old concepts of police work caused many to venture and test anything. George Kelling and James Q. Wilson analyzed and tested their hypothesis. I will break down their “Broken Windows Theory” and how this has changed law enforcement today.

    Police officers tend to see what we don’t see regularly. Most seem to sense danger and how things are

According to the findings of Alpert et al (2005) the majority of police-citizen encounters arise in the absence of supervision meaning that on an individual level, police officers have a large amount of discretion within the decision making process. The decision of a police officer to upgrade or down grade their behavior toward at citizen is based solely on the discretion of the officer.

After a continued conversation with experimenter 1’s replacement, experimenter 1’s replacement explained to the students that he was a part of the psychology department and that the subject had been a participant in the study. He asked the participants if they noticed anything when the two people passed through carrying the door, and if they noticed that he was a completely different person than experimenter 1. Depending on the subject’s answer, they experimenters would be able to determine whether or not they were affected by the real world change blindness. After the answers to those particular questions were recorded, the subjects were debriefed and released.

Research topic: Police corruption Research Thesis Statement: Police corruption involves the law enforcement engaging in ethical and unethical behavior including the abuse of authority and/or using their authority for personal attainment. Research Reasons Based on "Serpico." According to Ronald G. Burns police corruption can be defined as, "a form of police misconduct involving the misuse of authority for the personal gain of the officer or another" (Falcone, 2005, p.57). For several years, police corruption has been a major problem in American society in which the law enforcement cross the line between morality and ethicality. There are two main elements in corruption which include the abuse of authority or using their authority for personal

Change blindness occurs when the observer does not noticed any changes in their visual field.

The first thing I learned is about change blindness. In change blindness we do not notice big changes that occur. This helps me understand that my brain is concentrating at one task at a time. For example, the video shows this by demonstrating that we only focused on the money that the man had, which caused us not to see the change in the background.

First off, when tasked with creating an experimental design, you must randomly assign your participants into different testing groups. For this experiment, we will have the control group and an experimental group. Our research participants will be randomly assigned to either group and we will check drivers in each group for 20/20 vision. We will also check the participants driving record to see if their is a history

Throughout history, noble kings and powerful leaders have fallen from power due to their blindness towards people they trusted. Novels, such as William Shakespeare’s King Lear convey a similar message. Although blindness is conceived as the lack of sight by many, metaphorically speaking, blindness is the inability to see and interpret the truth due to one’s deceptiveness and lies. In King Lear, Lear’s blindness towards Goneril and Regan, and his arrogance, results in his downfall. Similarly, Gloucester’s blind-eye towards Edmund results in his downfall and ironically, his loss of eye-sight. Shakespeare conveys, through the life and dialogue of Lear and Gloucester,

Cross-cultural differences in change-blindness has been a topic of interest to psychologists in recent times. The literature shows a trend in perception that Eastern individuals note more details of the background whereas Western individuals tend to focus more on central objects. The change-blindness phenomenon also follows this trend in the literature with Eastern individuals being more observant of background changes and Western individuals being more observant of foreground changes. In this study, the participants took part in a change-blindness task that included both foreground and background trials. A repeated measures ANOVA was conducted on the results and it was found that there was a significant difference in accuracy scores between Chinese and English participants. Post-Hoc analysis concluded that Chinese participants were significantly better at the background trial and that English participants were significantly better at the foreground trial.