AP PSYCHOLOGY

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RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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She conducted an experiment wherein she presented participants with two auditory messages, one to the left ear and one to the right ear, and told them to focus their attention on one of the messages (the attended message) and to ignore the other one (the unattended message).
A
Mary Calkins
B
Colin Cherry
C
Mary Ainsworth
D
Melanie Klein
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In a standard dichotic listening test, a participant is presented with two different auditory stimuli simultaneously (usually speech), directed into different ears over headphones.

Detailed explanation-2: -With the dichotic listening technique, two different auditory stimuli are presented at the same time, one in each ear (Hugdahl, 1999).

Detailed explanation-3: -Dichotic Listening Studies Dichotic listening simply refers to the situation when two messages are presented simultaneously to an individual, with one message in each ear. In order to control which message the person attends to, the individual is asked to repeat back or “shadow” one of the messages as he hears it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Treisman carried out dichotic listening tasks using the speech shadowing method. Typically, in this method participants are asked to simultaneously repeat aloud speech played into one ear (called the attended ear) whilst another message is spoken to the other ear.

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