andrade 2010

Question 1

attention?

Answer 1

the concentration of mental effort on a particular stimulus

Question 2

divided attention

Answer 2

the ability to spit mental effort between two or more simultaneous tasks; involves a primary task and a secondary task

Question 3

daydreaming

Answer 3

a mildly altered state of consciousness in which we experience being ‘lost in our thoughts’ and detach from our enviornment

Question 4

memory

Answer 4

the ecoding, storage and retrieval of information, potentially leading to long term retention

Question 5

incidental memory

Answer 5

information that you do not focus on but you cal recall

Question 6

psychology investigated

Answer 6

attention, memory

Question 7

aim

Answer 7

to investigate whether doodling improves concentration in a boring task (or not)

Question 8

sample

Answer 8

40 individuals recruited from the MRC applied psychology unit (ppt panel)
35 female, 5 male
18-55 y/o
paid for their participation
UK based

Question 9

sampling method

Answer 9

opportunity sample
ppts recruited as they left an unrelated experiment about giving directions
asked if they would spend another 5 minutes on a study
way to control boredom as an uncontrolled variable by increasing how boring the study was

Question 10

monitored information

Answer 10

name of partygoers

Question 11

incidental information

Answer 11

place names 8 place names

Question 12

IV

Answer 12

doodling while listening or not doodling while listening

Question 13

DV

Answer 13

• monitoring accuracy
• memory for monitored information
• memory for incidental information