PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Electrodermal Activity

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

Applied researchers study how well we can listen to two people at the same time idea from. *how many auditory inputs can be processed at the same time: cocktail party phenomenon many people talking, and someone says your name which draws your attention on whoever said your name. Our brain allows us to filter out speech we"re not interested in. 1950s psych lab = dichotic listening experiments selective attention/listening = ignore one and focus on the other. Attend to conversation on right ear, ignore left. Phonemic = more confident that participant is paying attention to the correct one and ignoring the other. Presenting speech to left and right ears make differences in attention: sensory input is contra-lateral hemisphere left hemisphere of the brain has the language area meaning what you hear on the right ear is processed better. Sensory/physical properties such as: gender of speaker, tone, loudness/quickness, pitch, fast/slow, etc. But not able to comprehend the meaning.