Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

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Final Answer : Broadbent and Treisman's models both deal with attention. Broadbent believes that filtering is done at the beginning, and that the nervous system only allows stimuli that meets certain requirements to pass through. Treisman's modified filter theory argues that all information passes through, but that some is monitored at a very low volume, and that if meaningful information is found in that stream, it can be attended to later.

Compare and contrast Broadbent's filter theory with Treisman's modified filter theory. Which theory best accounts for the ways in which people select what they attend to from the massive amount of information entering the sensory registers?

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