PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Speech Shadowing, Electrodermal Activity, Stroop Effect
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It would be impossible to get the meaning of an unattended message: two messages that contain information presented slowly can be processed. Moray concluded that important material can penetrate filter name is important midway through the passage. Attenuation theory: unattende messages are not completely blocked down only their volume is turn down . Incoming messages are subjected to 3 kinds of analysis: some meaningful information is available if hard to recover, 1st stage attenuator: analyzes message"s physical properties like pitch or loudness. Resource limited processing = greater results when more effort is. Performance on data limited task means that it depends on data coming in and not mental effort or concentration. Memory set one or more numbers/letters targets could be subsequent distractors this should require more resources: consistent mapping condition. Dual task performance: spelke/hirst/neisser: two cornell students to learn to write words while reading short stories, 5 days a week for 17 weeks in 1h sessions, test reading comprehension periodically.
