PSY 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stroop Effect, Sensory Memory, Visual Cortex
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Select some inputs from the environments for further processing at the expense of other inputs. Dichotic listening - people were listening to auditory stimuli, person would have headphones and both ears would have different auditory input. Intended channel - message that you are trying to attend to. Unintended channel - ignore the message in the other ear. Shadowing - required to repeat the intended message, word-for-word, echoing. Participants are good at doing this task, can shadow easily and repeat the story after because they can ignore the unintended channel, they usually don"t remember what happened in the unintended channel. Result: found that not that much information was encoded from the unattended channel. Little memory for that message because you do not pay attention to it. You can report if the voice is male or female. Used as behavioral test for hemispheric and lateral laterization, if one side will favor it compared to the other.
