PSYC 330 Lecture : PSYC330 Jan 22.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

How many auditory inputs can we process at the same time and understand them: how hard it is to listen to many voices talking at the same time on radio, cocktail party phenomena, we block other conversations but not entirely salient words can trigger our attention towards another conversation, how is it that the brain can focus only on relevant input and seemingly blocking the irrelevant but also monitoring the irrelevant. Other researcher would go into a box and find even smaller boxes: ^this is what the cognitive psychologists thought (cid:224) behaviorists disbelieved this they left the big black box alone, broadbent first model of attention, people did not noticed the language change or reversed or repeated words in the unattended message, believed that unattended message was completely blocked, ear by ear recall was discovered when a study was done with digits said in both ears at the same time, broatbent"s y tube model.