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Chapter 5: Selective Attention (Change blindness (Definition: inability to…
Chapter 5: Selective Attention
Cocktail Effect
Other conversations tuned out
Unattended channel can be noticed
The participant’s own name
Words of high personal significance
Attention
Boosts attended items
Dampens unattended items
Shadowing task:
Demonstrates ability to focus on some input and ignore others
Dichotic listening—Different messages to each ear
Attended channel—Listen to this one
Unattended channel—Ignore this one
Unilateral neglect syndrome
Damage to the right parietal lobe
Cannot attend to the left side of space
DIVIDED ATTENTION
refers to the skill of performing multiple tasks simultaneously
Multitask
What kinds of things can you do at once?
Those that don’t interfere
Those that aren’t too demanding
Change blindness
Definition: inability to detect changes in scenes
being able to detect difference between objects
High Aromaticity
