PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Crooner, Anne Treisman, Perseveration

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

Document Summary

Broadbent and his filter metaphor on attention. Part i: first attempts to study the limits of attention to. Studies started in the period of wwii. To find out how to make communication better through radio channels. The brain is able to block out other conversations allowing you to focus on your particular conversation partner. Focusing on listening to your conversational partner and blocking out everyone around you and hearing your name from across the room or something that has a specific significance to you. Several people are talking at the same time. Focus to listen to one person that one is interested. Listener is able to notice special cue/stimuli even though they are blocking out the other conversations in the cocktail party phenomenon. We may not be blocking every piece of information out. Even if we"re blocking out other conversations, words, or phrases that is relevant to us will make us focus on that conversation even if we.