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Summer Cognition test 2 - People and Experiments
people of test 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
06/18/2009

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Colin Cherry
Definition
Did research in the 1950's & 1940's
Known for the cocktail party effect
(selective attention)
Used Dichotic Listening tasks and shadowing
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Donald Broadbent
Definition
1958 Added onto cherry's findings
Did split scan studies
Theorized that both messages from dichotic listening task enter buffer
Meaning analysis channels and filters prevent information overload
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Treisman
Definition
Added to broadbent's theory

Breakthrough Stimuli
Attenuating vs gating
Flexible location of the filter
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Michael Posner
Definition
Spotlight Theory of Attention
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Shiffrin & Schneider
Definition
1977
Consistent vs Varied mapping Results: there wasn't any habituation for the varied condition, but for consistent mapping, there was.
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