To Explain Dichotic Listening Findings Such as the Observation That

question 26

Multiple Choice

To explain dichotic listening findings such as the observation that a participant usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the ignored channel, Treisman (1969) proposed that

• A)unattended information is not completely excluded from higher analysis, but merely attenuated.
• B)attention can be explained only in terms of late, rather than early, selection mechanisms.
• C)relatively unique types of stimuli, such as names, do not require attention for processing.
• D)familiar stimuli that have been learned previously by participants do not require attention for processing.