Andrade(Doodling)

Question 1

What is the aim of this study?

Answer 1

To investigate whether doodling assists information processing, perhaps by enabling people to attend more effectively or by enhancing their memory

Question 2

How does Andrade define doodling?

Answer 2

As the sketching of patterns and figures that are unrelated to the primary task.

Question 3

What was the method of the experiment?

Answer 3

A laboratory experiment

Question 4

Due to the design what couldn’t participants do?

Answer 4

Respond to telephone messages

Question 5

What was the design of this experiment?

Answer 5

The design was independent measures, participants were either in the control group or in the doodling group

Question 6

What was the sample of this study?

Answer 6

40 people of the general population aged 18-55 years

Question 7

How was the sample compensated?

Answer 7

paid a small sum for participation

Question 8

What was the independent variable?

Answer 8

Doodling

Question 9

What was the dependent variable?

Answer 9

Recall

Question 10

What were each half of the participants asked to recall?

Answer 10

One half were asked to recall the names of party goers then the places mentioned, while the others were asked to recall the places first then the names

Question 11

What would the participants listen to?

Answer 11

A dull telephone message

Question 12

During the previously mentioned tasks what would the participants be doing?

Answer 12

They would either be doodling or not doodling

Question 13

What was the monitoring task?

Answer 13

When participants were told beforehand they would be tested on the names of people who were attending the party;

Question 14

What was the recall test?

Answer 14

When participants had an unexpected test on the names of places mentioned

Question 15

How long did the telephone message/call last?

Answer 15

2.5 minutes

Question 16

How was the telephone message/call recorded?

Answer 16

In a monotonous voice at an average speed of 227 words per minute

Question 17

The telephone call had names of 8 people who would be what?

Answer 17

Attending the party

Question 18

Who and how many couldn’t attend the party?

Answer 18

3 named people and a cat

Question 19

How many places were mentioned in the telephone call?

Answer 19

8

Question 19

How many places were mentioned in the telephone call?

Answer 19

8

Question 20

What else was mentioned in the telephone call?

Answer 20

Irrelevant details

Question 21

The A4 sheet of paper given to the participants in the doodling condition had what and how many?

Answer 21

It had alternating rows of squares and circles, ten per row

Question 22

The A4 sheet of paper also had what?

Answer 22

A wide margin on the left for recording the target
information.

Question 23

The participants in the doodling condition were given a pencil and asked to do what?

Answer 23

Shade in the squares and circles while listening to the tape

Question 24

The participants in the doodling condition were told what about their doodling?

Answer 24

“It doesn’t matter how neatly or how quickly
you do this, it is just something to help relieve the boredom”

Question 25

The participants in the control group were given what?

Answer 25

A blank sheet of lined paper

Question 26

What was the mean and range number of shaded shapes on the printed sheet in the control condition?

Answer 26

Mean of 36.3 and range of 3-110

Question 27

Did participants in the control condition doodle?

Answer 27

No

Question 28

What was the mean of participants in the control group correctly recalling the 8 party goers names?

Answer 28

7.1

Question 29

In the control condition how many people made a false alarm in recalling the party goers?

Answer 29

5

Question 30

What was the mean of participants in the doodling condition correctly recalling the 8 party goers names?

Answer 30

7.8

Question 31

In the doodling condition how many people made a false alarm in recalling the party goers?

Answer 31

1

Question 32

What was the overall mean of the doodling condition recalling the names and places?

Answer 32

7.5

Question 33

Compared to the control condition the mean of the doodling condition was how much better?

Answer 33

29%

Question 34

What was the overall mean of the control condition recalling the names and places?

Answer 34

5.8

Question 35

Main conclusion of this study?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

The method and design of this study made it a strength in what way?

Answer 36

Made it possible to control extraneous variables, it also became valid as the only correlations that could be made were based off the variables

Question 37

How is this study reliable?

Answer 37

The participants were similarly bored

Question 38

The operalization of doodling being standardized made the study more what?

Answer 38

Valid

Question 39

The amount of shapes being shaded differing between participants meant what for the study(weakness)?

Answer 39

There was a risk of participant variables confounding the results

Question 40

The participants of this study were all members of a recruitment panel, how is this a weakness?

Answer 40

They are similar and therefore the validity and representation decrease

Question 41

Participants suspecting a memory test may be a weakness in what way?

Answer 41

They may show demand characteristics