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6. Who proposed the cocktail party effect?

  • Toulson
  • Moray
  • Cherry
  • Slater

7. What ethical issues were raised?

  • Debriefing
  • None
  • Right to withdraw
  • Protection from harm

8. What was the independent variable in study 3?

  • When the numbers were said
  • Whether the passage the participant heard contained numbers
  • Whether the participants were told to remember any numbers they heard
  • Which ear the message was played to

9. What were the results of the 3rd Study

  • Both groups had very similar scores, and these were relatively high
  • Participants that were warned to listen out for the digits did better, but both groups did poorly
  • Participants that were warned to listen out for the digits did better
  • Both groups heard a negligible number of numbers

10. How many affective and non-affective instructions were played?

  • 39,36
  • 38,38
  • 40,40
  • 32,35

11. Which experiment didn't use a repeated measures design

  • 1 - Matched Pairs
  • 3 - Independent Measures
  • They all used repeated measures
  • 2 - Matched Pairs
  • 2 - Independent Measures

12. In the first study how many of the shadowed words were recognised on average?

  • 2.5
  • 3.2
  • 4.9
  • 6.5

13. What is dichotic listening?

  • When a sound is played, stopped, then resumed, with this process being repeated multiple times
  • When two sounds are played simultaneously, one in each ear
  • When a sound is played in alternating ears
  • When two sounds are played simultaneously in both ears

14. Alongside being asked to recall the passage, what else were participants asked to do in study 1?

  • To tell the story in the passage backwards
  • A recognition test, where they had to say if a word had been played into their ear
  • To recall all the words from the unattended ear
  • There was no other task

15. What happened during Study 3?

  • Participants were given questions in the unattended ear to answer
  • A small list of words was played into the unattended ear 35 times
  • Numbers were intermittently played
  • Participants were given affective and non-affective instructions

16. What was the largest error in validity?

  • It lacked ecological validity, as it was unlike real-life conversations
  • The validity was fine
  • It lacked reliability, which reduced the internal validity
  • It lacked population validity

17. How many affective and non-affective instructions were heard?

  • 13,14
  • 30,2
  • 20,4
  • 15,9

18. How many participants were there in each study?

  • unknown, 16, 14
  • 10, 15, unknown
  • 26, unknown, 14
  • unknown, 12, 28
  • unknown, 32, unknown

19. How many conditions were there in Study 2?

  • 8, with 2 being silent
  • 10, with 4 of them being silent
  • 6
  • 12

20. What was the research method?

  • Controlled Observation
  • Laboratory Experiment
  • Field Experiment
  • Case Study