[Week 4] Failures of Awareness - The Case of Inattentional Blindness

Question 1

Dichotic listening

Answer 1

A task in which different audio streams are presented to each ear. Typically, people are asked to monitor one stream while ignoring the other.

Question 2

Inattentional blindness

Answer 2

The failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected, object or event when attention is devoted to something else.

Question 3

Inattentional deafness

Answer 3

The auditory analog of inattentional blindness. People fail to notice an unexpected sound or voice when attention is devoted to other aspects of a scene.

Question 4

Selective listening

Answer 4

A method for studying selective attention in which people focus attention on one auditory stream of information while deliberately ignoring other auditory information.