PSYC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stroop Effect, Handsfree, Developmental Disorder
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Chapter 4: attention types of attention: selective attention: focus on one object, exclude others. Dichotic listening: one message presented in left ear and the other in the right ear. Attended messages pass through attenuator at full strength, and unattended messages pass at a much weaker strength, to the dictionary unit. The dictionary unit contains words that have thresholds for being activated. Common/important words have low threshold and uncommon words have high threshold. Late selection model: mckay (1973: sele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of sti(cid:373)uli for fi(cid:374)al pro(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g does(cid:374)"t o(cid:272)(cid:272)ur until after information analyzed for meaning i(cid:374) atte(cid:374)di(cid:374)g ear, heard (cid:862)they (cid:449)ere thro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g sto(cid:374)es at the (cid:271)a(cid:374)k(cid:863). I(cid:374) u(cid:374)atte(cid:374)ded ear, heard either (cid:862)ri(cid:448)er(cid:863) or (cid:862)(cid:373)o(cid:374)ey(cid:863) (cid:272)o(cid:374)sta(cid:374)tly. Had to (cid:272)hoose (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:449)as (cid:272)losest to the (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of the atte(cid:374)ded ear: (cid:862)they threw stones toward the side of the ri(cid:448)er yesterday(cid:863) or (cid:862)they thre(cid:449) sto(cid:374)es at the sa(cid:448)i(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d loa(cid:374) asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) yesterday(cid:863).
