Moray

Question 1

Aim?

Answer 1

To test Cherry’s dichotic listening findings in relation to, firstly, the amount of information recognised in the rejected message; secondly, the effect of hearing one’s own name in the unattended message; and thirdly, the effect of instructions to identify a specific target in the rejected message

Question 2

Research method?

Answer 2

Lab experiment

Question 3

Sample?

Answer 3

Study 2 = 12 participants
Study 3 = 2 groups of 14 participants
Study 1 = number not recorded
All undergraduates or research workers including female and males

Question 4

Study 1 procedure?

Answer 4

Participants heard a short list of simple words repeated 35 times in the unattended ear whilst they shadowed a prose message in the attended ear. The word list was faded in after shadowing began and faded out as the attended message ended

Question 5

Study 1 IV and DV?

Answer 5

IV = the shadowed message, the rejected message and a control 
DV = (measured in 2 ways) the participant was asked to recall all they could from the unattended message and were then given a recognition test which included words from the shadowed message, the rejected message and a control set of words that had not been present in either

Question 6

Study 2 procedure?

Answer 6

Participants shadowed ten short passages of light fiction, each being a different condition having a different set of instructions either at the start or within the passage, or both. The participants were told they their responses would be recorded and that the object was ‘to try score as few mistakes as possible’. In 3 of the 6 conditions with instructions during the passage, the instruction begun with the participants own name eg. John smith you may stop now. All participants experienced all of the 10 conditions and the 4 ‘no instruction’ were interspersed randomly. Of the remaining pairs, the one without the individuals name was already presented before the same instruction with their name

Question 7

Study 2 IV and DV?

Answer 7

IV = whether the instructions in the message had the participants own name (affective instructions) or not (non-affective instructions)
DV = the frequency of which the instruction was heard