Term
| Colin Cherry's research, specifically |
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Definition
| Multiple spoken messages in the ears of the participant-
-same voice: was very hard to distinguish
-aspects that aided differentiation
-sex of speaker
-Intensity of voice
-Location of voice
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Term
| Colin Cherry's research, results of dichotic listening and shadowing |
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Definition
| Attended ear had good performed well
Unattended ear was terrible
-he could:
play the tape backwards
change the language
*Physical changes were detected - change to tone
participants couldn't pick up any of the message, despite repeated trials |
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Term
| Donald Broadbents Split-scan study, specifically |
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Definition
Gave the participant two streams of data,
and asked them to report it in simultaneous pairs or by stream |
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Term
| Donald Broadbent's Study, problems |
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Definition
| practice effects
Input Modality:
poor memory of the attended for whole passages
good memory of the unattended for pictures
Semantic Streaming |
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Term
| Treisman's Breakthrough stimuli |
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Definition
| information presented in the unattended channel can slip in to the attended channel if it is highly related. Low chance of occurrence (6%) |
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Term
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Definition
the attenuator processes based on:
physical characteristics
linguistic elements, high and low
Channels:
reduces other messages
strengthens focused message |
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Term
| Flanker Compatibility Task, variables |
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Definition
| Did the flanker stimuli, help or hinder?
Distance from the focused stimulus
Visual Load of the participant |
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Term
| Schizophrenic v Normal Subjects on the Flanker comparison task |
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Definition
SZ's:
low load- problems with RT
high load- like normal
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Term
| Schizophrenic v Normal Subjects on Attentional Blink |
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Definition
SZ's:
poorer target ID
extended attentional blink period |
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