PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inattentional Blindness, Cognitive Psychology, Change Blindness
25 Nov 2013
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William james is a influential person in cognitive psychology: famous quote of what attention is. Concentration on something to do it effectively but you sacrifice concentration on something else. Dichotic listening is a method to study attention: participants put on headphones, heard one input in the left and different one in the right, participants were told to pay attention to one of these channels. The attended channel: and told to ignore the other sound in the other ear. The unattended channel: took make sure participants are paying attention they are usually given a task. They were listening to a speech on the left side they had to repeat it back word for word. Although the people could not understand the input of the unattended channel they could realize if it was music or speech, high or low, or woman or man.
