Inattentional blindness Flashcards
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Dichotic listening
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A task in which different audio streams are presented to each ear. Typically, people are asked to monitor one stream while ignoring the other
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Inattentional blindness
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The failure to notice a fully visible, but unexpected, object or event when attention is devoted to something else.
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Inattentional deafness
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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.
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Selective listening
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A method for studying selective attention in which people focus attention on one auditory stream of information while deliberately ignoring other auditory information.
