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Chapter 8 - Week 21 Researching attention (Video) (Lavies study (What were…
Chapter 8 - Week 21 Researching attention (Video)
Lavies study
What were they asked to do?
Look at the image and judge the length of the two lines flashed on a screen
Tell which colour was horizontal/vertical
Behavioural task
looking at attentional blindness
Difficult tasks = larger load so not easily distracted
Main finding of Lavies experiement
Significant variations in focus dependant on how challenging a test is
Broadbent
Distraction questionnaire
Limitations
People may answer how they think they should
Hakura's work on cultural differences in attention
North America
Focused attention
Japan
Divided attention
Attentional differences of focused or divided start to show at school age