Moray

Question 1

State the assumptions of the cognitive area

Answer 1

• behavior as a result as mental process

- the mind works like a computer information is input stored and retrieved

Question 2

What is the key theme of Morays study?

Answer 2

attention

Question 3

Give the aim of Morays study

Answer 3

to test whether cherrys dichotic listening findings in relation to, the amount of information recognised in the rejected message, the effect of hearings ones own name in the unattended message, the effect of instruction to identify a specific target in the rejected message

Question 4

State the design used in Morays study

Answer 4

1-repeated measures
2-repeated measures
3-independent measures

Question 5

State the method of Morays study

Answer 5

lab experiment

Question 6

Give strengths of the method used in Morays study

Answer 6

• high level of control
• all messages performed by same speaker,
• increases internal validity

Question 7

Give weaknesses of the method used in Morays study

Answer 7

• low mundane realism
• not an everday task to listen to dichotic headphones and repeat what you hear
• lowers ecological validity

Question 8

Describe the sample used in Morays study

Answer 8

• undergraduate students of both genders form oxford university
• 1- number wasnt recorded
• 2- 12 participants
• 3-2 groups of 14

Question 9

Define the term attention

Answer 9

The result of a limited capacity information processing system

Question 10

Define the term binaural

Answer 10

Presented to both ears at the same time

Question 11

Define the term dichotic

Answer 11

A different message is played in each ear

Question 12

Define the term shadowing

Answer 12

You have to repeat one message in dichotic listening task

Question 13

Define the term rejected message

Answer 13

The one not being shadowed

Question 14

Give the conclusions drawn form morays study

Answer 14

• when asked to focus on one message, the rejected message is almost completely unable to break the attentional barrier
• some messages like a persons name, however are able to break the attentional barrier if the message is important to that person
• it is difficult to make neutral material important enough to break the attentional barrier

Question 15

Give the applications made from morays study

Answer 15

• driver safety
• testing consciousness in long term coma patients
• using dichotic listening tests to understand children with listening problems

Question 16

Give the controls used in morays study

Answer 16

• volume, matched loudness for both messages
• practice, before the experiment the participant had 4 practice prose passages to shadow
• all by one male speaker