... coming from. But in relation to our actual experiment as we shall see later on, MORAY (1959) argued that participants would often here their own name in the background if it was called out, suggesting that the non-attended channels are not completely ignored and that there is some awareness in them, and it is through this suggestion that the non-attended channels are not completely ignored that we make our hypothesis. Aim: Our aim within this investigation is to explore through experimentation, the human properties of attention and distraction and the qualities surrounding them. We will make a suitable hypothesis concerning our investigation from the background knowledge that we have on attention and distraction and then will set to test this hypothesis through appropriate testing and investigation. Hypothesis: Our hypothesis is that when a participant is asked to calculate a list of twenty sums, the presence of a recording of random numbers played into headphones ...

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