Moray (1959)

What is a dichotic listening task?

• When people to listen through headphones whilst one message is played to both ears.

• When people listen through headphones whilst two different messages are played, one in each ear. People are asked to shadow (listen - usually repeating out loud) one of these messages, and reject (ignore) the other.

• When people listen through headphones whilst two different messages are played, one in each ear. People are asked to reject (listen - usually repeating out loud) one of these messages, and shadow (ignore) the other.

Whose 'Cocktail Party Effect' was the research trying to find empirical evidence for, using dichotic listening tasks?

• Tony's

• Cherry's

• Apple's

• Sultana's

Which of the following is the aim for experiment 2?

• To test whether neutral information that was deemed important would be enough to break through the attentional block?

• To test whether pps could recall any information from the rejected message?

• To test whether the use of the pp’s name (affective instruction) could break through the attentional block?

What design was used in experiment 3?

• Repeated measures design

• Independent measures design

• Longitudinal design

• Matched pairs design

How many more pps were used in experiment 2 compared to experiment 1?

• 2 pps

• 5 pps

• 10 pps

• We can't say

How many practice trials were done before each experiment?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

In experiment 2, how many pairs of passages of light fiction did pps shadow?

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

The IV in experiment 1 was whether the instructions given were affective or non affective?

• True

• False

In experiment 3 the IV's were....

• Whether digits were inserted into both, neither or only one message

• Whether pps told had to answer questions about the shadowed message at the end of the passage or whether they had to remember all the digits they could remember

• The previous appearance of the words (shadowed, rejected or control)

The DV in experiment 3 was?

• The information recalled related to the shadowed passage

• The number of digits reported

• The number of correctly reported digits