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Concentration on certain stimuli in the environment and not on others, enabling important stimuli to be distinguished from peripheral or incidental ones (APA n.d.)
Introduction
Theories and models of attention differ in a number of ways, as they attempt to explain how and when an individual processes the physical and semantic aspects of their environment. Early selection models of attention suggest that stimuli pass through a filter before they can be attended to and processed for meaning. Broadbent (1958) investigated this idea of early selection by using a split-span, or dichotic listening paradigm. In the dichotic-listening paradigm, participants are presented with two different auditory stimuli (one in each ear) at the same time and are instructed to attend to one or both of the stimuli. Afterward, they are asked about the content of...
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Schiller, M.M., Kazanas, S.A. (2019). Selective Attending. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2793-1
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