PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Cocktail Party, Razor Strop, Subliminal Stimuli
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Neville moray (1959) built on cherry"s work and found that people could notice changes in the physical properties such as loudness but could not pick up on even simple meaningful messages in the unattended message. So broadbent postulated that attention works after basic physical features are detected but prior to meaningful features. The cocktail party effect : at a cocktail party while listening carefully to one conversation you will suddenly hear your name when it is uttered in another conversation. Moray (1959) found that participants could notice their name spoken in the unattended channel of a shadowing experiment. He concluded that it is probably only material important" to the subject that will break through the [bottleneck] barrier. so attention is filtering after meaning is processed. In the late selection view attention selects information after it has been processed as meaningful ex. By the mid 80s most psychologists favored a late selection model.
