PSYC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speech Shadowing, Visual Search, Psychopathology

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Psyc 2700 varieties of attention: capacities & theories. *all content belongs to jordan richard schoenherr & where cited in lecture slides* Associated w/ selection of subset of possible info, either external or internal, for further processing. Related to: arousal, awareness, concentration, & consciousness: attention doesn"t necessarily translate into identification, learning, or understanding. Detection of appearance of particular stimulus including vigilance & search (sternberg, Visual search paradigm: participants asked to scan display in search of particular target while trying to ignore distractors: in 1st slide, find s ; in 2nd slide, find red t (*in lecture slides*) Shadowing tasks: listener repeats continuously what"s presented in 1 ear; ensures listener attends to material: dichotic presentation: present diff auditory info to each ear, usually through headphones. Cherry (1953): speech recognition: participants presented speech in 1 or 2 ears, physical properties could either be same or diff (e. g. , male or female voice, if similar, participants had difficulty selectively attending to 1 msg.

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