Section A questions for Moray

Question 1

Describe the materials required for the dichotic listening task (3)

Answer 1

Materials required included a modified tape recorder which played two different outputs, headphones for the participants ( a different input in each ear from tape recorder) and passages of texts to be read out ( lists of words or light fiction, some including participants names, some with instructions or numbers)

Question 2

What was the aim of the second experiment
Cue? Example?
Break? So that? Even though which message?

Answer 2

To see if an affective cue like the participants name could break the in-attentional barrier and be attended to even though it is from the rejected message

Question 3

3 conditions in the 2 experiment

Answer 3

Having an affective cue like the participants name with instruction

No affective cue ( no name) with instruction

No instruction

Question 4

Describe the sample in experiment 3
How many participants?
Occupations?
Spilt into how many groups?
How many in each?

Answer 4

28 participants of undergraduate students and research workers split into 2 groups 14 in each condition