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PSYC20007_2025_SM2 Supplementary or Special Exam: Cognitive Psychology (PSYC20007_2025_SM2)- Requires Respondus LockDown Browser
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Gray and Wedderburn’s (1960) “Dear Aunt Jane” experiment was a problem for filter theory because:
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A.The filter should not have been able to detect meaningful material that alternated across ears.
B.The limited capacity channel is too slow to process material when it is presented on two ears simultaneously.
C.The filter switch time is too slow to track meaningful material across ears.
D.The material in short term memory should have decayed before it was read into the limited capacity channel.
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In Gray and Wedderburn’s (1960) Dear Aunt Jane study, the central puzzle for filter theory arises from how meaningful information seems to pass between ears even when the unattended message is rapidly alternating.
Option 1: The filter should not have been able to detect meaningful material that alternated across ears. This is the core claim that challenges filter theory: if a semantic or meaningful message can be recovered......Login to view full explanationLog in for full answers
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