Experiment 2

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To investigate whether personally meaningful information is able to break through the inattentional barrier

Question 2

Sample

Answer 2

12 undergraduate students or research workers from Oxford university

Question 3

Independent variable

Answer 3

Whether an instruction within a rejected passage was proceeded by the participants name

Question 4

Dependent variable

Answer 4

Whether participants were more likely to hear an instruction in a message they’re not paying attention to if it is preceded by their name.
This was operationalised by whether they reported hearing it or did the instruction.

Question 5

Procedure

Answer 5

• two passages of light fiction heard, one in one ear, the other in the other ear
• both passages contained an instruction at the start, and another within them
  -both passages read at monotone by male voice

Question 6

Results

Answer 6

Each experienced same ten passages in same order making it repeated measures.

Question 7

Affective instructions

Answer 7

Instruction presented 39
Instruction heard 20

Question 8

Non affective instruction

Answer 8

Instruction presented 36
Instruction heard 4

Question 9

Conclusions

Answer 9

Participants far more likely to hear instructions that were affective
They were more likely to follow the instruction and switch ears when they heard the instruction ,I’d way through