PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dichotic Listening Test, Cocktail Party, Donald Broadbent
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Slide 2: more amorphous; concentrated on internal and external systems. Overt attention looking at on thing but focus on something else. Slide 5: in the first experiment, the results were that the participant can report there was a message coming from one ear. Slide 6: selective attention ability to focus on one message and ignore all others. Slide 7: broadbent"s filter model: all that info goes through and hits a filter, filter determines what info receives attention. Broadbent predicted that the voice went through and was activated but did not filter. Slide 8: test 2: loud noise/name able to retain selective attention. Slide 9: results were processed at some level. Cocktail party effect calling out their name at a party, brings more attention. Change in gender a change in a male and female voice. Change in tone soft voice to loud voice. Slide 10: leaky-filter: most things were not going through while she was able to pick up some info.
