COGNITIVE: Andrade Flashcards
what is the aim of the study?
to test whether doodling helps aid concentration and enhance memory.
what was the research method and design?
lab experiment
opportunity sample
independent measures design
how many people were in the sample? and from where?
40 members from the medical research council from the cognitive unit.
what was the age of the participants?
18-55
how many males and females were in the doodling group?
3 males and 17 females
how many males and females were in the control group?
2 males and 18 females
describe the mock telephone call
it had a monotone voice and was played at an average speed of 227 words per ,minute and the call lasted 2.5 minutes. There were 8 names of people who were attending the party and 3 names and a cat who weren’t attending the party. 8 names of places mere mentioned and other irrelevant details.
how many names of people were going to the party?
8 names
how many names of people and animals weren’t going to the party?
3 names and a cat
describe the doodling condition
they were given an A4 sheet of paper with alternating rows of squares and circles, ten each row, and a margin on the left to write down the names. they were also given a pencil.
describe the control condition
they were given an A4 sheet of lined paper to write down the names.
what was the monitoring task?
to remember the names of the people going to the party, nothing else.
what was the recall task?
to recall the places mentioned in the call
how many shapes were shaded?
36.3
how much did the doodling group get in the monitoring task?
7.8/8
how much did the control group get in the monitoring task?
7.1/8
how much did the doodling group get in the recall task?
7.2/8
how much did the control group get in the recall task?
4.5/8
what were the conclusions?
Doodling helps concentration on a primary task as the doodling participants performed better than participants just listening to the primary task with no concurrent task
attention:
the concentration of mental effort on a particular stimulus
divided attention:
the ability to split mental effort between two or more simultaneous tasks
daydreaming:
a mildly altered state of consciousness in which we experience sense of being ‘lost in our thoughts’
focused attention:
the picking out of a particular input from massive information
doodling:
the sketching of figures and shapes that are unrelated to a task
