What was one of the first experiments in the field of selective attention?
Dichotic Listening Task
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In a dichotic listening experiment, ______ refers to the procedure that is used to force participants to pay attention to a specific message among competing messages.
Shadowing
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When a person is "shadowing" a message, what are they doing?
Saying the message out loud
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What is the cocktail party effect?
The ability to pay attention to one message & ignore others, yet hear distinctive features of the unattended messages
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Broadbent's "filter model" proposes that the filter identifies the attended message based on:
Physical characteristics
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In Broadbent's filter model, what order does the stages of information processing occur?
Sensory store, filter, detector, memory
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Broadbent's Filter Model is classed as an Early Selection Model. Why is this?
The filtering step occurs before the meaning of the incoming information is analysed.
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What was the first flowchart model of human information processing?
Broadbent's Filter Model
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According to Broadbent's Filter Model, the filter is said to operate like what?
A channel selector on a TV
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______ suggest that all stimuli are initially encoded & perceptually analysed.
Late Selection Models
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According to ______ attention is the bottleneck that limits the perceptual analysis of the stimuli.
Early Selection Models
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Treisman suggested that while Broadbent's basic approach was correct, it failed to account for?
The fact that people can still process the meaning of attended messages
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____ argued that almost ALL of the stimuli are sent on for further processing
Late Selection
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In support of late selection models, MacKay showed that the presentation of a biasing word on the unattended ear influenced participants' processing of ____ when they were ____ of that word.
Ambiguous sentences; unaware
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The ability to pay attention to, or carry out, two or more different tasks simultaneously is known as
Divided attention
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The Stroop effect demonstrates:
How automatic processing can interfere with intended processing
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The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the ____ of words
Meaning
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Donald has no idea what he just read in Lizzie’s text because he was thinking about how hungry he was & the millionaires shortbread waiting for him at home. This is a real-world example of
Inattentional blindness
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With the Stroop effect, you would expect to find longest response times when:
The colour & name differed
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In a dichotic listening experiment, ______ refers to the procedure that is used to force participants to pay attention to a specific message among competing messages.
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Shadowing
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When a person is "shadowing" a message, what are they doing?
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What is the cocktail party effect?
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Broadbent's "filter model" proposes that the filter identifies the attended message based on:
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