Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cocktail Party, Strong Prime, Acronym

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Selective attention ability to focus on task at hand while ignoring other information. Shadowing task experiment that studies selective attention. In this task you are wearing headphones and they have two different sounds in each. Left ear hear one thing, right ear another thing. Told to repeat everything said in one ear and ignore the other. Focus on one ear and ignore the other (selective attention). Based on the unattended information that we do and don"t end up comprehending - we can learn about how selective attention works by seeing what they filter out in other ear. 3 theories: broadbent"s early selection theory , all information in environment goes into sensory register (which briefly registers/stores. Then you can engage in other cognitive processes such as deciding how to respond. This means that you do register and assign everything meaning but then selective filter decides what you pass on to conscious awareness.