Skip to content

Course home

x
Moray (1959): Auditory attention
x

Selective attention and dichotic listening

Selective attention and dichotic listening

Schematic of Moray's dichotic listening task showing attended and rejected channels, headphones, and shadowing aloud

Moray's 1959 study is a classic investigation of selective attention in the Cognitive area. Because attention cannot be seen directly, Moray inferred it from behaviour such as shadowing and later reports of what was heard.

Moray (1959): Auditory attention Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Moray (1959): Auditory attention

Step-by-step lessons on OCR A Level Psychology Moray (1959): Auditory attention. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

Lessons