PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blue Triangle, Occipital Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex
11 Dec 2015
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Dichotic listening: participants wear headphones and hear one input in the left ear and a different input in the right ear. Participants were told to pay attention to one input- attended channel- and ignore the message in the other ear-unattended channel. Shadowing: a task in which participants are required to repeat back a verbal input, word for word, as they hear it: when shadowing the attended channel the participant cannot possibly pay attention to the unattended one. Cocktail party effect: a term often used to describe a pattern in which a person tunes out all other conversation reaching his or her ears except for the conversation he or she wishes to pay attention to. Their name) appears in one of the other conversations, the person is likely to detect the stimulus. Filter: a hypothetical mechanism that would block potential distractors from further processing- central to early theories of attention.
