PSY-3217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inattentional Blindness, The Cocktail Party, Change Blindness

• School: App State
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY-3217
• Professor: christopherdickinson

Document Summary

Start with 2 normal messages, then change in unattended ear does listener notice: changes that were not detected: Czech words read with english accent: changes that were detected: Male vs. female speaker: detected: feature-based information o. Changes in the unattended channel that reached awareness (cherry, 1953) and what they suggest about processing of unattended information (in terms of the information- processing stream) o. We can process the contextual information (things regarding the features characteristics) and cannot process things regarding content. The cocktail party effect: what it is and what it suggests about the processing of unattended information o. The cocktail party effect: detecting your name in an ignored (i. e. , unattended) conversation: greater wmc is linked to: Smaller cocktail party effect in dichotic listening experiments (i. e. , one"s name in ignored message detected less often: shows evidence for processing ignored information (cid:0) ignored but not lost (unconscious perception)