Selection and Attention

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What is Dichotic Listening?
Listening with both ears
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What is a shadowing task?
Repeat aloud a message word for word
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What did Cherry (1953) find? (Cocktail party)
Participants had no knowledge of the meaning of the unattended ear
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What was Broadbent's filter model?
Physical characteristics of messages are used to select one message for further processing and that all others are lost
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What is Treisman's Attenutation Model? (1960)
Unattended messages are processed weakly
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What did the Late Selection Model argue? (Deutsch and Deutsch, 1963)
all stimuli get processed in full, with the crucial difference being a filter placed later in the information processing routine, just before the entrance into working memory
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What is selective looking?
An analogue of dichotic listening for vision
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What is load theory?
Locus of selection is both early and late, it depends on how hard the task is
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What is perceptual load?
Refers to the complexity of the stimuli in the display
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What is cognitive load?
The load that the task goals and prioritises place on working memory
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What is biased competition?
Stimuli compete for limited capacity in multiple system, this competition can be biased in favour of relevant stimuli and so can be selected at multiple loci
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What is early selection?
Locus of selection is at early stages of processing and so unattended stimuli is not fully processed
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What is late selection?
Attention operates only after stimuli have been fully processed
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