Author Question: In support of late selection models, Donald MacKay showed that the presentation of a biasing word on ... (Read 42 times)

s.tung · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

In support of late selection models, Donald MacKay showed that the presentation of a biasing word on the unattended ear influenced participants' processing of when they were of that word.

a. letter pairs; aware
b. letter pairs; unaware
c. ambiguous sentences; aware
d. ambiguous sentences; unaware

Question 2

Suppose you are in your kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you are not paying attention to the TV, you suddenly remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is best predicted by which of the following models of attention?

a. Object-based
b. Early selection
c. Spotlight
d. Late selection