Moray Et Al Flashcards
How many participants in each experiment?
1st = unknown
2nd = 12
3rd = 14
What did the participants have to do in the 1st experiment?
Shadow 4 passages of prose and complete a dichotic listening task
How many times were the words read over and over?
35 times
How many words were in the dichotic listening task?
21 words, 7 = short list of words, 7 = shadowed, 7 = neither
Results for each message?
Shadowed = 4.9, rejected = 1.9, neither = 2.6
Conclusion for the first experiment?
You can only attend to 1 message at a time
What did the participants have to do in the 2nd experiment?
Shadowed 10 passages in one ear and heard instructions in the other, told to score as few mistakes as possible.
What were the difference in the instructions?
Some included the participants name and some didn’t
What were the results for the affective and unaffective instructions?
Affective = 20/39, unaffective = 4/36
Conclusion for the second experiment?
Messages that are important to us can penetrate the neutral block
What did the participants have to do in the third experiment?
Shadow a dichotic task and told to either listen out for digits or content
Results for third experiment?
No significant difference between content and digits
Conclusion for third experiment?
Neutral material can’t penetrate the neutral block even if you have been pre warned
