7) Malik is a participant in a dichotic listening experiment…
7) Malik is a participant in a dichotic listening experiment. He is asked to repeat back only the speech being played in his left ear and ignore the speech in his right ear. In the first trial of the experiment, the following sentences are played: Left ear: “A man drives a green car into town and then goes into the grocery store.” Right ear: “The child plays with two friends before returning home and eating dinner.” Neither of the two sentences contains any words or phrases that would be particularly meaningful to Malik. Malik repeats back the sentence played in his left ear perfectly. When he’s asked what he remembers from his right ear, he reports that he doesn’t recall anything that was played in his right ear. In the second trial of the experiment, Malik is again asked to repeat back only the speech being played in his left ear and ignore the speech in his right ear. In this second trial of the experiment, the following sentences are played: Left ear: “The dog chased the tennis ball all the way to the back of the yard.” Right ear: “Diego decided to go over to his friend Malik’s house to play a video game.” In this case, while Malik repeats back the sentence played in his left ear perfectly, when he’s asked what he heard in his right ear, he says that he heard, “Malik is going to play a video game.” The fact that Malik reported no memory or awareness of the sentence played in the right ear in the first trial of the experiment, but heard the name “Malik” in the second trial is most consistent with what model or models of attention?