Moray 1959

Question 1

What was the research design used in Moray’s study?

Answer 1

Experiment 1 & 2= repeated measures design

Experiment 3= independent measures design

Question 2

What was the sample used in Moray’s study?

Answer 2

Moray’s participants were undergraduates and research workers of both sexes.
Experiment 1, the number of ps is not given.
Experiment 2, 12 ps
Experiment 3, 2 groups of 14

Question 3

What was the procedure of exp 1?

Answer 3

Exp 1) Students listen to a message in one ear (shadowed message) and in the other ear was a list of words being repeated 35 times (rejected message). They then took a recognition test and ps had to say if they remember the word or not and they were scored out of 21 (7 in each IV)

Question 4

What is the procedure of exp 2?

Answer 4

Exp 2) 12 ps listen to 2 passages simultaneously. They were all told to pay attention to the right ear, in 3 of the rejected passages their name was mentioned and told them to swap ears.

Question 5

What is the procedure of exp 3?

Answer 5

Exp 3) 2 groups of 14, 1 group =remember as many digits, the other group= told they would have to answer questions about shadowed message. They had to recall any digits they heard in the message.

Question 6

What are 2 findings of the study

Answer 6

1) The 30 second delay was unlikely to have caused the rejected material to be lost because words from early in the shadowed message were recognised
2) Only 4 out of the 20 occasions in which the ‘names’ instructions were heard did the participants actually make a change to the other message.

Question 7

What is 1 conclusion of Moray?

Answer 7

On conclusion from Morays study is that a short list of simple words presented as the rejected message shows no trace of being remembered even when presented many times.

Question 8

What research method was used ?

Answer 8

Lab

Question 9

How it relates to the key theme ‘attention’?

Answer 9

Provides evidence that any information that is not important does not penetrate the block and we have little or no memory of this information when our attention has been focused on a different auditory task.

Question 10

How it relates to the cognitive area?

Answer 10

Investigating the cognitive process of attention, specifically, selective attention.