Topic 2 Flashcards
1
Q
How did research in selectively attending audio streams start?`
A
By Colin Cherry in an electronics laboratory - paper was published in an acoustics journal
2
Q
What is the name for experiments in which subjects wear headphones and listen to two different audio streams?
A
Dichotic listening task
3
Q
What is used to make sure a subject is attending to a certain audio stream?
A
Shadowing - repeating a message as it is heard
4
Q
What type of changes to an unattended audio stream are subjects more likely to notice?
A
Change of speaker from male to female, or insertion of a pure tone
5
Q
What is a split-span experiment, and what are typical results?
A
- Subjects are asked to split their attention between two inputs to both ears
- Subjects recall information based on the ear they heard it from, not the order they heard it in
6
Q
What type of model is Broadbent’s model of attention?
A
Early-selection
7
Q
Who created the first attentional theory?
A
Broadbent
