PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cocktail Party, Behaviorism, Information Theory
14 Mar 2018
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Not associated with eye movement no observable measures rule out behaviorist explanation only cognitive. Researchers made implicit assumptions - critical selective attention component is a structural bottleneck that reduces the flow of information (structural models) During 1960s, the terms attentional selection and attentional filtering were often used interchangeably it was assumed selection was a result of filtering (which is only one of the theories) Laberge (1995) suggests that selection may involve the amplification of relevant inputs relative to unblocked irrelevant inputs. Behaviorists originally didn"t want to study someone who was attending to speech because it is unobservable. But, it would be confusing and dangerous for pilots and ground controllers to listen to. 2 or more radio messages at the same time during world war ii (1940s) When a lot of people are talking at the same time, we focus on our conversational partner, and tune out other speech streams. 1900 equipment: used stethophones to present auditory stimuli binaurally.
