Moray

Question 1

What was the first aim of Moray?

Answer 1

To see if there’s an inattentional barrier

Question 2

What was the second aim of the Moray experiment?

Answer 2

To see if affective cue’s break that inattentional barrier

Question 3

What is the third aim of Moray?

Answer 3

To see if neutral cues break the inattentional barrier

Question 4

What type of sample was used?

Answer 4

Opportunity sample as they were all undergraduate students

Question 5

What type of design was used?

Answer 5

Repeated measures design

Question 6

What is a strength and weakness of using repeated measures design?

Answer 6

One strength is that there are no individual differences which makes the results more reliable as you are able to get more consistent results

One weakness is that there may be order effects which may interfere with the validity for the experiment because ppt’s may get better at remembering information because of practice or worse because of fatigue. Also, results are generalised.

Question 7

What were the controls of the apparatus?

Answer 7

1. 60 decibels above hearing threshold
2. Male speaker only
3. Made sure each ppt was hearing the same message

Question 8

What was the general procedure of the experiment?

Answer 8

Ppt’s were instructed to shadow one message while another message was played on the other ear.
The aim was to see what breaks the inattentional barrier.

Question 9

What was the conclusion of experiment 1?

Answer 9

Experiment 1 suggested that there is an inattentional barrier to processing information

Question 10

What was the rejected message in experiment 1?

Answer 10

The word list

Question 11

What was the IV of experiment 1?

Answer 11

Shadowed message

Rejected message

Question 12

How many ppt’s took part in experiment 2?

Answer 12

12

Question 13

What was the IV of experiment 2?

Answer 13

Passage containing affective cue

Passage not containing affective cue

Question 14

Results: Experiment 1

What was the mean number of words recognised in the shadowed message?

Answer 14

4.9 out of 7

Question 15

Results: Experiment 1

What was the mean number of words recognised in the rejected message?

Answer 15

1.9 out of 7

Question 16

Results: Experiment 1

What was the mean number of words recognised that was presented for the first time in the recognition test?

Answer 16

2.6 out of 7

Question 17

Results: Experiment 2

What is the ratio of number of times presented : number of times heard for affective cues?

Answer 17

39:20

Question 18

Results: Experiment 2

What is the ratio of number of times presented : number of times heard for non affective cues?

Answer 18

36 : 4

Question 19

What is the conclusion for experiment 2?

Answer 19

The affective cue I.e ‘name’ is able to break the inattentional barrier

Question 20

What type of design is used in experiment 3?

Answer 20

Independent measures design

Question 21

What is a strength and weakness of using independent measures design?

Answer 21

An advantage is that there are no order effects because ppt’s only take part in one condition. This increases the validity of the experiment as ppt’s can not get better through practice or worse through fatigue.

A disadvantage is that there are individual differences which may interfere with the validity of the experiment as you are unsure that the IV is definitely causing the DV

Question 22

How many people took part in experiment 3?

Answer 22

28

Question 23

What was the IV of experiment 3?

Answer 23

The IV was whether they were told to listen out for digits or not

Question 24

What was differences about the results of experiment 3, compared to Experiment 1 and 2?

Answer 24

The results in experiment 3 showed no difference in the mean scores or digits recalled