Sensation & Perception: Perception & Attention Flashcards
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Donald Broadbent
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Believed that selective attention acts as a filter between sensory stimuli and our processing systems. He believed that selective attention was an all-or-nothing process.
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Cocktail Party Phenomenon
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An example of how you can attend to something you are interested in, while not totally ignoring the background noise. This examples criticizes Broadbent’s beliefs
3
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Dichotic Listening
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A study method where two ears are listening to two different messages.
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Yerkes-Dodson’s Law
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Performance is worst at extremely low or extremely high levels of arousal and optimal at some intermediate levels.
