PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cocktail Party, Stroop Effect, Speech Shadowing
28 Sep 2016
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Attending to something causes the object of attention to be selected apart from the rest of the unattended objects. Objects within the spotlight: faster reaction time, higher accuracy. Cocktail party effect: subjects asked to listen to two different messages played from a single loud speaker at the same time, subjects tried to separate the messages, repeating one but not the other in a. Shadowing task : revealed that the ability to separate target sounds from background noise is based on physical characteristics, such as gender of speaker or direction, pitch and speed of speech. Paradigm requires you to attend to information on the task relevant to mention, ignore information irrelevant to mention. Proportion congruent manipulator: change the ratio of congruent to incongruent trials. Automatic: evidence: word reading influences performance even when the word is to be ignored. Controlled: people can adopt consciously controlled word reading strategies that modulate the. Set size = the number of items to search through.
