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What is the cocktail effect?
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ignoring a boring conversation and tuning into a more interesting one
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What technique did Cherry use to study the Cocktail Effect?
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shadowing; participants listen to 2 messages, but are only required to listen and repeat outloud one
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What factors make it easier to listen to only one message?
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distinctive sensory characteristics, different sound intensity, and the locations of the sound sources
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What is the bottleneck theory of selective attention?
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explaining how the brain accomodates to the amount of information that the working memory can hold
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What are the components of the early selection model?
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unattended items are filtered out very early on
Sensory Memory->filter (physical characteristics)(unattended message taken out)->pattern recognition->selection process |
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What was the problem with the early selection model?
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meaningful info gets into consciousness (n. Moray)
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What is the later selection theory/two part model?
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model that involves a high level mental dictionary and a low level selective filter
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