PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Automaticity, Stroop Effect, Perseveration
9 Dec 2016
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A task in which research participants are required to repeat back a verbal input, word for word, as they hear it 145. A stimulus (or group of stimuli) that a person is not trying to perceive. Ordinarily, little information is understood or remembered from the unattended channel. In selective attention experiments, research participants are exposed to simultaneous inputs and are instructed to ignore all of these except one. The attended channel is the input to which participants are instructed to pay attention. Task in which research participants hear two simultaneous verbal messages one presented via headphones to the left ear and a second one presented to the right ear. In typical experiments, participants are asked to pay attention to one of these inputs (the attended channel) and are urged to ignore the other. (page 143) A hypothetical mechanism that would block potential distractors from further processing 145.
