In Dichotic Listening Studies,Cherry (1953)presented Competing Speech Stimuli to Each

question 41

Multiple Choice

In dichotic listening studies,Cherry (1953) presented competing speech stimuli to each ear and asked participants to verbally "shadow" (immediately report) the signal arriving at one ear while ignoring the other.He found that participants

• A)were better at reporting the signal that they found to be more interesting in content,regardless of the ear to which attention had been directed.
• B)could accurately report only the content of the signal presented to the ignored ear.
• C)accurately recalled only the content of the signal presented to the shadowed ear.
• D)were equally accurate at reporting the content of both signals.

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