PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Automaticity
29 Oct 2014
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Dichotic listening early studies used setup; dichotic listening where participants wore headphones and heard one input in left ear and different in right ear and pay attention to one of them the attended channel and told to ignore the message in the other ear (unattended channel) to make sure they were paying attention, given a task known as shadowing (repeating after hearing someone talk which is usually perfect but cant tell what the unattended channel was) What you do with unattended input; block processing of inputs your not interested in bottleneck theories suggest that you erect a filter that shields you from potential distractors: filtering is specific and done on a distractor by distractor basis, sentry seem to block specific, already identified gate crashers so able to inhibit response to this distractor and do the same for that distraction, also able to promote processing of desired stimuli.
