PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Saccade, Headphones, Colors Of Noise

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

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[speech: focusing on one thing, william james - everybody knows what attention is (sort of, makes attention seem simple. Attention is an umbrella term - e. g. big engineering department @ ubc. Selective attention to speech - 1950s: recorders & stereo headphones, shadowing can be challenging. Ww2 - people wore headphones and couldn"t say what everyone was saying when listening. Experimenter wants to repeat what subject is saying. Filter model of attention - broadbent [guy introduced in ch 1: filter blocks out the speech we aren"t interested in, background noise. Dichotic listening: presenting different stimuli to the left & right ears: ww2 example, attention & search (part 2) [vision + search, stimuli, neisser aren"t directing their attention to them - looking but not seeing . Inattentional blindness: unaware of clear visible stimuli if they. E. g. using mobile device while driving -> accidents. Object added; subjects forget what object it was.