PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dichotic Listening Test, Cocktail Party, Behaviorism
8 Nov 2016
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During conscious activities there is awareness of these activities, and individuals are paying attention to what is going on. In order to study divided attention and selective attention a dichotic listening study is performed. Selective attention: can pay attention to one thing or a certain source of information and tune out or ignore the other outside sources. To study the selective attention, scientists use the dichotic listening test: The ways of studying consciousness: structuralism - introspectrum, adherently subjective, biased. Cannot scientifically study: behaviorism (the study of behavior, everyone can measure behaviors. Can study and measure, but inferences have to happen: psychophysiology (taking body processes to make inferences) Inferences come about: subjective report (individuals give researcher what is going on in their mind) Makes inferences about certain things after studying different behaviors or feelings of different people. Altered states of consciousness: dreaming, drug states, hypnosis, meditation, near death experiences.
