Moray's Study of Dichotic Listening

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What is dichotic listening?
When two sounds are played simultaneously, one in each ear
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What was the shadowed message?
The message that was listened to and repeated
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Who proposed the cocktail party effect?
Cherry
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How many participants were there in each study?
unknown, 12, 28
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Which experiment didn't use a repeated measures design
3 - Independent Measures
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What happened during Study 1?
A small list of words was played into the unattended ear 35 times
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What happened during study 2?
Participants were given affective and non-affective instructions
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What happened during Study 3?
Numbers were intermittently played
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Alongside being asked to recall the passage, what else were participants asked to do in study 1?
A recognition test, where they had to say if a word had been played into their ear
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How many conditions were there in Study 2?
10, with 4 of them being silent
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What was the independent variable in study 3?
Whether the participants were told to remember any numbers they heard
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In the first study how many words from the unattended ear were recognised?
1.9
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How many affective and non-affective instructions were played?
39,36
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How many affective and non-affective instructions were heard?
20,4
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What was the research method?
Laboratory Experiment
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What ethical issues were raised?
None
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What was the largest error in validity?
It lacked ecological validity, as it was unlike real-life conversations
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What were the results of the 3rd Study
Participants that were warned to listen out for the digits did better, but both groups did poorly
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