Moray (Cognitive Area)

Question 1

Moray Background

Answer 1

One of the things that Cherry noticed that grabs our attention is the sound of our own name. Cherry calls this the cocktail party effect.

Question 2

Moray Aims

Answer 2

To test Cherry’s findings on attention “more rigorously”

Question 3

Moray Sample

Answer 3

It was undergraduate students and research workers of both genders at Oxford University

Question 4

Moray Research Methods in all 3 experiments

Answer 4

All lab experiments, had an IV and DV and high levels of control

Question 5

Moray Sample in Each experiment

Answer 5

All participants were undergraduates and research workers of both sexes

Experiment 1: not given
Experiment 2: 12 participants
Experiment 3: 14 participants

Question 6

Moray Experiment 1 Procedure

Answer 6

A list of words were spoken25 times as the ‘rejected’ or ‘blocked’ message.

At the end of the shadowing task participants were asked to recall all they could remember from the rejected message

After the completion of the shadow tasks, participants were given a recognition test of 21 words, 7 in the shadowed message, 7 in the rejected message and the last 7 were in neither

Question 7

Moray Experiment 2 Procedure

Answer 7

Participants shadowed ten short passages of light fiction.

Rejected messages were played in the other ear which were not attended to, Moray wanted to find out of these messages would be heard of it included their name

Question 8

Moray Experiment 3 Procedure

Answer 8

Digits were inserted to each passage in a random way.

First group were given no instruction

Second group told they would be asked questions on rejected message.

Question 9

Moray Experiment 1 Findings

Answer 9

Mean words recognised in the showed message was 4.9 out of 7, while in the rejected it was 1.9 out of 7

Question 10

Moray Experiment 2 Findings

Answer 10

Most participants ignored the instructions that were presented in the passages they were shadowing, and said they thought this was merely an attempt to distract them

On only 4 out of the 20 occasions in which the ‘names’ instructions were heard did the participants actually make a change to the other message

Question 11

Moray Experiments 3 Findings

Answer 11

There was no significant difference between the digits recall in each condition