AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of the brain’s ability to focus one’s auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, such as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sometimes called “selective hearing” or “selective attention, ” the cocktail party effect is a phenomenon that refers to our ability to focus on one specific auditory stimuli while filtering out others.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cocktail-party effect refers to the ability to focus one’s attention a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli (i.e., noise).

Detailed explanation-4: -Broadbent’s theory predicts that hearing your name when you are not paying attention should be impossible because unattended messages are filtered out before you process the meaning-thus the model cannot account for the ‘Cocktail Party Phenomenon’.