PSY 211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sensory Memory, Simple Features, Prefrontal Cortex
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Dichotic listening: procedure of presenting one message into the left ear and a different message into the right. Task is to focus on the attender ear and repeat what is heard (shadowing) Found his participants could easily shadow spoken message in attending ear (even say male or female voice) Neville moray found they couldn"t report unattended even word was repeated. Cocktail party effect: focus on one stimulus while filtering out the others. Gray and wedderburn (1960) dear aunt jane. Dear 7 jane attending and 9 aunt 6 in unattending. Selective attention: attending to one thing while ignoring the other. Attention operates as a peripheral gate aka a bottleneck. There"s a filter that completely stops the unintended message from getting through. Early selection model: model of attention that explains selective attention by early filtering out of unattended message. Detector: information from attended message to determine higher level characteristics such as meaning.
