Selective Attention
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- Created on: 13-05-15 16:08
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- Selective and Divided Attention
- Modern definitions of attention
- Ability to block out info which isn't useful
- Mental process of concentrating on stimulus
- Involves selective and divided attention
- Has a strong relationship with memory
- CHERRY (1953): Cocktail Party Effect
- Developed by MORAY (1959)
- Often unaware of a conversation until something catches our attention
- Such as hearing your own name
- suggests we subconsciously monitor conversations but do not consciously pay attention
- Selective Attention - Concentrating on one thing at the expense of other things
- Do not notice the gorilla = good selective attention
- SIMON & CHABRIS (1999): Gorilla Experiment
- Do not notice the gorilla = good selective attention
- Divided Attention - allows us to monitor several things
- doing several tasks while cooking
- TREISMAN (1986)
- TREISMAN (1969): Attenuation Model
- Unattended signals weakened instead of blocked out completely
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- TREISMAN (1969): Attenuation Model
- BROADBENT (1958): Filter Model of Attention
- we focus our attention on one 'channel' of info
- Modern definitions of attention
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