PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inattentional Blindness, Cocktail Party, Headphones

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Many early studies of attention employed a task called shadowing hear a tape recording of someone speaking and echo this speech back, word for word, while they are listening to it. Initially challenging, but it becomes relatively easy after practice. In most experiments, the message to be shadowed, the attended channel, is presented through stereo headphones on the right side. A different message the unattended channel is presented in the left earphone, and participants are instructed to ignore this message: this overall setup is referred to as dichotic listening. In most cases, participants cannot even tell if the unattended channeled message was coherent or not. However could indicate if it is speech, music, or silence: recently this has been done visually asked to pay attention to game of basketball, and you don"t notice the moonwalking bear. In one study, people were asked to shadow one passage while ignoring a second passage.