PSY 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Inattentional Blindness, Cocktail Party, Change Blindness
27 Sep 2018
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Dichotic listening - a setup in which participants wore headphones and heard one input in the left ear and a different input in the right ear. The participants were instructed to pay attention to one of these inputs, the attended channel, and told simply to ignore the message in the other ear, the unattended channel. To make sure participants were paying attention, they were usually given a task called shadowing, in which participants had to echo back what they heard, word for word. Shadowing performance is usually good, but participants usually cannot tell much about the content of the unattended message. Cocktail party effect - you are able to focus your attention on a single voice in a crowd, and also able to pick out your name and tune in to another conversation. Inattentional blindness - failu(cid:396)e to see so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g you"(cid:396)e looki(cid:374)g di(cid:396)e(cid:272)tly at because you were not expecting to see it or looking for it.
