PSYC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saccade, Parafovea, Peripheral Vision
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Study question: compare and contrast early and late selection. It is the taking possession by the mind in clear trains of thought(cid:499)- william james: the amazing color card trick (cid:523)didn"t notice them change their clothes- & vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or. Selective vs. divided attention: dual message vs. dual task (multi-task) pair of headphones on & each ear gets a different word) Shadowing experiments (selectively attend to one of the 2 messages; have a. The bottleneck metaphor (cid:523)there"s no much info we are trying to process, only focus on it even when there"s 20 other conversations) a certain amount goes through the bottleneck, we can only process so much- ex. Cocktail party effect; you can selectively process one conversation if you. Cherry (1953) what do we perceive in the ignored ear: participants could only tell physical characteristics, but not meaning- words were repeated up to 35 times & still not heard.
