PSYC 213 Chapter 4: PSYC213-Chapter 4 Notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Jelena Ristic

Document Summary

Dichotic listening: participants listen to two messages simultaneously, and required to answer questions posed in only one of the messages. Selective attention: attending to relevant info and ignoring irrelevant info. Cocktail party phenomenon: ability to attend to one convo in a crowded room. Shadowing task: expose subject to two messages simultaneously, ask them to repeat one of the messages as it is heard. Filter: admits some messages but blocks others. Selective looking: watch two simultaneous events, but attend only to one: found that people were able to do this easily. Results from dichotic listening and selective looking support the early selection view of attention: attention prevents early perceptual processing of distractors: participant does not see or hear irrelevant info. Late selection: both relevant and irrelevant info are perceived, so the person must actively ignore irrelevant stimuli to focus on relevant ones.