Psychology 2015A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: The Cocktail Party, Stroop Effect, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Dichotic listening participants are exposed to two messages at the same time and must respond to one question. People were good at this task when they knew what question they had to answer before hand. Aka good at selective attention attending to relevant information and ignoring other. The cocktail party phenomenon ability to attend to one conversation while many others are taking place around you. Shadowing task subject is exposed to two messages at the same time and must repeat one. People filter out information they don"t want to attend to, the filter allows some messages through and blocks others. Selective looking exposed to two events at the same time but only attend to one of them. Early selection view of attention hypothesis that attention prevents early perceptual processing of distractors. Late selection we perceive both stimuli and have to actively ignore the irrelevant stimuli and focus on the relevant one.