Sensory Memory - ANSWER Holds all incoming information for a fraction of a second, then transfers it all to the next stage
Filter - ANSWER part of Broadbent's Filter model, only allows the attended message to be passed on to the next stage
Detector - ANSWER Part of Broadbent's Filter Model th...
Attention - ANSWER process of focusing on specific features of the environment or on
certain thoughts or activities
Selective Attention - ANSWER ability to focus on one message and ignore all others
Dichotic Listening Experiment - ANSWER Receive different messages in each ear to
test attended information vs. unattended
Broadbent's Filter Model - ANSWER Early-selection model
Filters message before incoming information is analyzed for meaning
Sensory Memory - ANSWER Holds all incoming information for a fraction of a second,
then transfers it all to the next stage
Filter - ANSWER part of Broadbent's Filter model, only allows the attended message to
be passed on to the next stage
Detector - ANSWER Part of Broadbent's Filter Model that processes all information to
determine higher level characteristics of the message
Short-Term Memory - ANSWER Holds small amount of information for about 10-15
seconds before potentially transferring it to long-term memory
Treisman's Attenuation Theory - ANSWER Intermediate-selection model
Attended message can be separated from unattended message early in the information-
processing system
Selection can also occur later
Attenuator - ANSWER part of Treisman's Theory, it analyzes the incoming message in
terms of physical characteristics, language, and meaning
the attended message is much stronger than the unattended
Dictionary Unit - ANSWER A component of Treisman's attenuation model of attention.
This processing unit contains stored words and thresholds for activating the words.
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