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Psychology - Cognitive Area Moray (1959) Part 2
This deck covers key aspects of Moray's 1959 study on cognitive processes, particularly focusing on selective attention. It includes evaluations of research methods, data, ethics, validity, reliability, and the study's contributions to psychology.
Evaluate the research method used in research by Moray.
Moray used a controlled lab experiment and these fulfilled scientific criteria. A standardised produce was used to control extraneous variables. However it was possible that participants were aware of the study and this may have affected participants responding to demand characteristics. Problems were ecological validity of a lab experiment.
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Evaluate the research method used in research by Moray.
Moray used a controlled lab experiment and these fulfilled scientific criteria. A standardised produce was used to control extraneous variables. Howev...
Evaluate the data collected in Moray’ study.
This study collected and reported quantitative data, for example, the number of words from a list in an unattended message that P’s could recall. This...
What were the ethical issues in Moray’s study?
The study was conducted ethically as tasks were clearly explained to participants before the study.
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as valid.
High design validity due to lab experiment and procedure and apparatus were standardised. However, participants knew they were in a study and may have...
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as ecologically valid.
Low ecological validity as uses headphones for dicotic messenger that blocks out background noise. Participants would not experience these conditions ...
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as reliable.
Moray uses highly controlled lab experiment and a standardised procedure, therefore it is replicable. Test-retest reliably could be established,
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| Term | Definition |
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Evaluate the research method used in research by Moray. | Moray used a controlled lab experiment and these fulfilled scientific criteria. A standardised produce was used to control extraneous variables. However it was possible that participants were aware of the study and this may have affected participants responding to demand characteristics. Problems were ecological validity of a lab experiment. |
Evaluate the data collected in Moray’ study. | This study collected and reported quantitative data, for example, the number of words from a list in an unattended message that P’s could recall. This type of data allows easy comparison between conditions and for the result to b easily summarised. The study could be repeated to establish test-reset reliability. |
What were the ethical issues in Moray’s study? | The study was conducted ethically as tasks were clearly explained to participants before the study. |
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as valid. | High design validity due to lab experiment and procedure and apparatus were standardised. However, participants knew they were in a study and may have tried to effect the outcome of the study, demand characteristics. |
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as ecologically valid. | Low ecological validity as uses headphones for dicotic messenger that blocks out background noise. Participants would not experience these conditions in real life. |
Discuss the extent to which research by Moray can be seen as reliable. | Moray uses highly controlled lab experiment and a standardised procedure, therefore it is replicable. Test-retest reliably could be established, |
Evaluate the sample used in Moray’s research. | The sample was made up of students and research workers. As advantage of such a sample is it can be collected relatively quickly and cheaply for a recherche carrying out research at a university. However, the participants may have been pre selected due to their high level of cognitive ability. They do not represent the general population as they are all part of higher education and some may have already known about the topic they were questioned on. |
What was extent was research by Moray ethnocentric? | Since cognitive processes such as selective attention depend upon the physiognomy of out brain, we could argue that studies such as Moray’s are not ethnocentric since they are investigating a species specific behaviour. However, it is possible that findings are only representative of English speaking westerners, who have brains that have been shaped for language. |
To what extent can research by Moray support psychology as a science. | Fulfilled scientific criteria and used a lab experiment. |
To what extent can research by Moray be seen as useful. | It contributes to psychology as an academic discipline as it provided empirical evidence for Cherry's cocktail party phenomenon. |
How does research by Moray fit into the cognitive area? | It investigates cognitive process of attention. Specifically it aimed to investigate selective attention by trying to find out whether 'unattended' material could break though the attention barrier that is set up when a person focuses their listening on a specific task. |
How does research by Moray link to the key theme? | The key theme is attention. Morays study provides robust empirical evidence into auditory selective attention. The study also provide evidence that information that is either neutral or not important does not penetrate the block. |