Suppose, during a dichotic listening task, you were attending to the sentence, "I saw the fork," while in the unattended ear you heard a list of food names (e.g., salad, steak, baked potato).How would you interpret the word fork? Would your interpretation differ if instead of food names you heard in the unattended ear "and I chose the path less traveled..." (a line from a poem by Robert Frost).Explain your answer in terms of theories of attention.

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The Answer of Suppose, during a dichotic listening task, you were attending to the sentence, "I saw the fork," while in the unattended ear you heard a list of food names (e.g., salad, steak, baked potato).How would you interpret the word fork? Would your interpretation differ if instead of food names you heard in the unattended ear "and I chose the path less traveled..." (a line from a poem by Robert Frost).Explain your answer in terms of theories of attention.

Suppose, During a Dichotic Listening Task, You Were Attending to the Sentence