PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Occipital Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Roderick Barron

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Selective attention: the skill though which one focuses on one input or one task while ignoring other stimuli that are also on the scene, william james. Set out many key issues that psychology continues to pursue today. Dichotic listening: a task in which research participants hear two simultaneous verbal images one presented via headphones to the left ear, a second to the right ear. In typical experiments, participants are asked to pay attention to one of these inputs (the attended channel) and urged to ignore the other: attended channel. In selective attention experiments, research participants are exposed to simultaneous inputs and instructed to ignore all of these except one. The attended channel is the input to which participants are instructed to pay attention: unattended channel. A stimulus (or group of stimuli) that a person is not trying to perceive. Ordinarily, little information is understood or remembered from the unattended channel: shadowing.