PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Eye Tracking, Cocktail Party, Anne Treisman

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

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Selective attention - the focusing of attention on one specific location, object, or message. Overt attention - process of shifting attention from one place to another by moving the eyes. Covert attention - attention is shifted without moving the eyes, commonly referred to as seeing something out of the corner of your eye . Divided attention - attending to two or more things at once (can be overt, covert, or a combination of the 2) Dichotic listening - different messages are presented to the 2 ears. Shadowing - the procedure of repeating the message out loud. It is used to ensure that participants are focusing their attention on the attended message. All other messages are filtered out: detector: processes information to determine higher-level characteristics of the message, such as its meaning. Because only the important, attended information has been let through the filter, the detector processes all the information that enters it: short-term memory: receives the output of the detector.