PSY-P 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Rutabaga, Speech Shadowing, Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• School: IU
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSY-P 335
• Professor: Thomas Gruenenfelder

Document Summary

Iii. each word of concept is represented by an entry in mental lexicon or mental dictionary. Iv. ea(cid:272)h (cid:449)ord has threshold (cid:862)su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e loud(cid:374)ess(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e exceeded for the (cid:449)ord to (cid:271)e re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ized//(cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:374)ode"s a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)atio(cid:374) level exceeds threshold we are conscious of word. Some words are important to me: ex- my name, wifes name, name of sailboat, etc. Have permanently low threshold and can always be recognized( ex: cocktail phenomenon) Threshold of words is temporarily lowered when they become relevant to context. E(cid:454): (cid:862)the girl(cid:863) te(cid:373)poraril(cid:455) lo(cid:449)ers threshold of (cid:449)ords su(cid:272)h as (cid:862)ju(cid:373)pi(cid:374)g, si(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g, ru(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, aski(cid:374)g, et(cid:272)(cid:863) (cid:449)hole list of verbs that girls can generally do. Relevant word can come thru filter with very reduced volume but still recognized because threshold for recognition is temporarily lowered(ex: treisman 1960 experiment) Ex: city names have lowered threshold temporarily when in context of shock experiment late selection models: selection after pattern recognition deutsch and deutsch norman.