PSYB57H3 Chapter 4: chapter 4

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Selective attention: we usually focus our attention on one or a few tasks or events rather than on many, shut out other competing tasks, dichotic listening task. / notice the played backward speech. couldn"t recall the content of the unattended msg or the language in which it was spoken. Broadbent: there are limits on how much info a person can attend to at any given time. The filter is based on some physical aspect of the attended msg: the location of its source or its typical pitch/ loudness. The filter selects info for later processing, early before the meaning of the msg is identified: explains why so little of the meaning of the unattended msg can be recalled. The meaning from an unattended msg is simply not processed. It should be impossible to recall any of the meaning of an unattended msg www. notesolution. com what is limited is the amount of info we can process at any given time.

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