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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?
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?
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?
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