PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anne Treisman, Cocktail Party, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Meredith Chivers

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New safety measures instituted where pilot must call out altitude as the descent takes place: redesigning of airplane instrument panel. As the stories progressed, she switched the stories to the opposite ears; found that individuals spontaneously followed the story, or the content of the message, when it shifted from the left ear to the right ear. Then they realized they were shadowing the wrong ear and switched back: suggested that selection starts at the physical or perceptual level, but that the unattended information is not blocked completely, it is just weakened or attenuated. Inattentional blindness selective attention holds true for other perceptual systems as well (vision: subliminal perception: stimuli presented below the threshold for awareness can influence thoughts, feelings, or actions, divided attention. Failure of awareness: the case of inattentional blindness: learning objectives, learn about inattentional blindness and why it occurs.