PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - The Cocktail Party, Speech Shadowing, Donald Broadbent
20 Aug 2013
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Attention: the way in which we select what info we want to work with. Selective attention: infinite number of things we can focus on. Early selection theories: broadbent"s filter model: dichotic listening. A pair of headphones and different messages coming from each, you need to shadow (pay attention) to one and not the other. You pick this before you hear or extract the context. Cherry (1953) people follow attended message but miss much about the unattended messages. It was backwards. (the unattended one) although they missed that it was backwards but there could tell if the voice was male or female. Moray (1959) unattended message was a list repeated 35 times and they still didn"t understand the content. We work so hard to listen and understand the one we are paying attention to, that we miss the unattended one. Basically there is a filter that selects which information will be more fully processed.
