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6. What does Deutsch and Deutsch's model not entail?

  • Meaning of the information is extracted before the filtering process takes place
  • The late filter distinguishes information on physical differences
  • Both channels are processed to the same degree
  • Irrelevant information is filtered out at the time of STM storage

7. Findings from the shadowing task show that...

  • ...participants hear little from the attended channel
  • ...participants hear little from the unattended channel
  • ...participants hear a lot from the unattended channel
  • ...participants hear nothing from the unattended channel

8. Which statement about the shadowing task is incorrect?

  • The sounds are played at the same time
  • Participants are asked to focus on both ears
  • Participants hear different sounds in both ears
  • It is known as dichotic listening

9. Who suggested the bottleneck occurs late in the system?

  • Treisman
  • Broadbent
  • Deutsch and Deutsch
  • Cherry

10. How did Broadbent not account for his findings?

  • The sensory buffer is the point at which stimuli is filtered
  • This filter prevents overloading the limited capacity of the mechanism which processes input for meaning
  • All information from both channels is attended and processed semantically
  • Two stimuli presented at the same time gain access in parallel to a sensory buffer