Attention

1. What is leckage

Being unable to give all attentional resources to the relevant channel
Irrelevant information can leak through the filter and be analysed, activating concepts in our LTM
Information becomes lost in our memory over time
Having too many attentional resources

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Own name effect- Played two messages into each ear, with the irrelevant channel including their name- 30% of people noticed their own name
Air traffic control- Heard simultaneous questions but only had to answer one, task was very difficult 50% answered correctly
Cocktail party- Two messages were played in either both ears or different ears, condition 2 was much easier to attend to one ear
Attending to two messages not separable by physical cues if vert hard

Change blindness requires a memory of the previous thing before it's changed
Inattentional blindness often occurs when performing another task
Memory is needed for both of them to familarise the event/picture
It is easier to perceive things once you have been made aware of them for both blindnesses

Cocktail party- Two messages were played in either both ears or different ears, condition 2 was much easier to attend to one ear
Electric shock conditioning- Irrelevant words still affected skin conductance responses
Own name effect- Played two messages into each ear, with the irrelevant channel including their name- 30% of people noticed their own name
Message switching- Participants report information from irrelevant ear when message switches to the other ear

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