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| "Monitoring inside and outside events" |
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Voluntary Control (Features of Attention) |
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| Seletive attention - attend and respond to one event while excluding others |
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Limited Capacity (Features of Attention) |
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| Divided attention - attend and respond to multiple events |
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Gateway Theories (Types of attention theories) |
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| Controls flow of information into memory |
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Dichotic Listening Task (Selective Listening Task) |
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- speech shadowing (Cherry, 1953. Headphones: when tweeking the ignored input, noticed - pure tone, switched gender; didn't notice - switched languages, played backwards, repeated)
-When not attending, we understand physical characteristics of information, but not meaning. |
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- Broadbent's Theory - Attenuation |
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| Broadbent's Filter Theory |
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- Process physical characteristics
- Filter is applied
- Only one source is passed through
- Accounts for Cherry's findings
Problems with Broadbent's Theory: Cocktail Party Effect |
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| Your conversing with someone but you hear someone else's conversation across the room because they had said a word or name that you recognize and are interested in. |
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| Treisman's Dichotic Listening Test |
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Pretty much they switch what you hear. Example: Right Ear- "While Bill was walking through the forest/ a bank can lend you the money" Left Ear- "If you want to buy a car/ a tree fell across his path" |
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Attenuation Theory (Treisman, 1960) |
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-Ignored input is not completely ignored "turned down" -We have lower thresholds for certain information Important infor to us - our names |
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Late Selection Theories (Deutsch and Deutsch, 1963) |
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-All information enters memory -Person selects info on which to focus -The rest of the info is forgotten |
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