PSY 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Donald Broadbent, Colin Cherry, Sensory Memory
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Filter model of attention - designed to explain the results of an experiment done by colin cherry (1953) Dichotic listening - presenting different stimuli to the left and right ears. Attend ear - to focus on the message in one ear. Shadowing - repeat what they are hearing out loud. Although participants could easily shadow a spoken message presented to the attended ear, and they could report whether the unattended message was a male or female voice, they could not report what was being said in the unattended ear. Cocktail part effect - ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli. At noisy parties, people are able to focus on what one person is saying even if there are many conversations happening at the same time. Donald broadbent (1958): created a model of attention designed to explain how it is possible to focus on one message and why information isn"t taken in from the other message.
