Question

An experimenter gives participants a set of headphones and plays a different story in each ear. Each participant is told to shadow the message in the left ear, and to ignore the message in the right ear. The attended story is ________, while the non-attended story is ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

the story in left ear, the story in right ear

Explanation:

Cognitive psychology: This is demonstrated in dichotic listening; a type of selective attention task where a listener shadows a message(repeats it aloud) and ignores the other message. The shadowed message is called the attended message while the unattended message is the ignored message. Studies reveal listeners often notice little about the unattended message.