PSYB57H3 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 PSYB57
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Psyb57 chapter 4: the varieties of attention. William james; everyone know what attention is: it is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Harold pashler; no one knows what attention is and there may even not be an it" there to be known about. Research on attention started when problems were experienced by armed forces personnel: many different streams of speech reach the person at the same time. Broadbent"s experimental technique was used -> dichotic listening: participants are exposed to 2 verbal messages simultaneously and are required to answer questions posed in only one of the messages. When participants knew in advance which of the two voices contained required message-> performance was very good. Participants good at selective-attention: attending to relevant info and ignoring irrelevant info: broadbent & cherry.
