Psychology 2115A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cocktail Party, Behaviorism
23 Apr 2013
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Suggested that attention is a process by which we pick out something in the environment, and bring it forward, letting everything else fall to the background. Attention is something that you can apply to one thing. Can only spend 100 here or 100 there. Started it (kicked off) then fell of the map because behaviourism took over. Was pushed to the side only until the 1950"s when the behaviorists were no longer in control. Broadbent- we stopped thinking as attention as an all or none thing, and more as a capacity thing. Can attend to more than one thing, but everything else you can not attend to. Automatic process: things that do not need attention don"t need capacity. Here your name, you can process it very well, essentially automatic, you do not need to be attending to what someone is saying to understand what they are saying.
