PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Misled (Celine Dion Song)
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Shadowing: participants hear tape recording of someone speaking and must echo this speech back word for word, while they are listening to this, Attended channel: in experiments, the attended channel is presented through stereo headphones so that participants hear attended channel through 1 earphone. Unattended channel: presented in another earphone, participants are instructed simply to ignore this message. Dichotic listening: overall setup of the event. Cherry, 1953: in experiment: participants follow 1 messaged and their shadowing performance is generally near perfect, they hear little from the unattended channel. If we ask them, after 1 minute of shadowing, to report what unattended channel contained non-words/words. Similar results w/ visual inputs, watched tv screen that show team of players in white shirts passing ball back and forth; the participants had a signal each time the ball changed hands. Another team wears black shirts also passing back and forth; they are supposed to ignore them.