PSY 333D Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Change Blindness, Language Change, Hemispatial Neglect
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Chapter 5- paying attention: explain what we have learned about attention (both strengths and limits) from dichotic listening experiments. Easier to attend if there is a physical distinction (pitch, location, guy v girl voice) Can determine physical characteristic (speech vs music; male vs female: compare and contrast change blindness and inattentional blindness. Describe not only how they are different but what they collectively suggest about attention. Change blindness is our terrible ability to pick up changes in the environment. In attentional blindness is failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere: differentiate between early and late selection theories of attention. Early selection: attention filters out on the basis of physical features. Filtering things out on the basis of their color, brightness, location in space. Late selection: attention filters only after meaning is analyzed. Information in front of you gets processed to a high degree of processing to level of meaning.
