PSY 309 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hemispatial Neglect, Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness
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Selective attention: the skill through which a person focuses on one input or one task while ignoring other stimuli that are also on the scene. Dichotic listening: a setup in which participants wore headphones and heard one input in the left ear and a different input in the right ear. Attended channel was the one the participant was instructed to listen to, and the other is called the unattended channel. Shadow: a task in which participants were required to repeat back what they were hearing, word for word, so that they were echoing the attended channel. Fixation target: a mark in the center of the computer screen. Inattentional blindness: a pattern in which people fail to see a prominent stimulus even though they"re staring straight at it. Change blindness: observers" inability to detect changes in scenes they"re looking directly at.
