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... Attention and Distraction. Introduction: The purpose of this coursework is to investigate the properties of the human idea of attention and distraction. Within psychology there are many ideas surrounding attention and distraction and how the principle of attention may work and many psychologists have gone to great pains in order to study attention and distraction to great depths. For example CHERRY in the early 50's established what he called the 'Cocktail party phenomenon' - suggesting that humans have merely one 'channel' of attention and no more and may only listening to this one channel and no other at any one time. Later in 1954 BROADBENT further supported Cherry's ideas by using what was called the 'filter-theory'. This involved the idea of the human brain's attention model being split into four individual parts and one of these parts, the 'Selective Filter', was the part that selected the 'channel' to listen to. Broadbent believed
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