PSY 200 Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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Attention - Process of focusing on specific features of the environment
or on certain thoughts or activities
What are the two types of attention - selective and divided
Research method for selective attention - dichotic listening
Dic...
messages in terms of physical characteristics, language, and meaning,
attended message is let through the attenuator at full strength, unattended
message is let through at a much weaker strength
Treisman's Attenuation Theory: dictionary unit - ✔✔contains words, each of
which have thresholds for being activated, words that are common or
important have low thresholds, uncommon words have high thresholds
Divided attention - ✔✔enables people to simultaneously do two things that
were difficult at first, Spelke et al, Schneider and Shiffrin
Spelke et al. - ✔✔after hours of practice, participants could read and
categorize dictated words
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