PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stroop Effect, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Jerky
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Dichotic listening: participants are exposed to two verbal messages simultaneously and required to answer to questions posed in only one of the messages. Selective attention: attending to relevant information and ignoring irrelevant information. Cocktail party phenomenon: the ability to attend to one conversation when many other conversations are going on around you. Shadowing task: a task in which the subject is exposed to two messages simultaneously and must repeat one of them. Filter: a hypothetical mechanism that would admit certain messages and block others. Selective looking: occurs when we are exposed to two events simultaneously, but attend to only one of them. Early selection: the hypothesis that attention prevents early perceptual processing of distractors. Late selection: the hypothesis that we perceive both relevant and irrelevant stimuli, and therefore must actively ignore the irrelevant stimuli in order to focus on the relevant ones.
