PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Donald Broadbent, Parietal Lobe, Stroop Effect
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Attention: the ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations. Selective attention: the focusing of attention on one specific location, object or message. Overt attention: the process of shifting attention from one place to another by moving the eyes. Covert attention: when attention is shifted without moving the eyes (seeing something out of the corner of the eye . Divided attention: attending to two or more things at once. Shadowing: a procedure is used to ensure that participants are focusing their attention on the attended message. Bottleneck model: broadbent"s filter model; it"s just like the neck of a bottle restricts the flow of liquid. Cocktail party effect: the phenomenon which a person is selectively listening to one message among many yet hears personal messages or fire that is not being attended. Dear aunt jane experiment: the phenomenon occurs because the subjects were taking the meaning into accounts.
