COGNITIVE: Andrade

Question 1

what is the aim of the study?

Answer 1

to test whether doodling helps aid concentration and enhance memory.

Question 2

what was the research method and design?

Answer 2

lab experiment
opportunity sample
independent measures design

Question 3

how many people were in the sample? and from where?

Answer 3

40 members from the medical research council from the cognitive unit.

Question 4

what was the age of the participants?

Answer 4

18-55

Question 5

how many males and females were in the doodling group?

Answer 5

3 males and 17 females

Question 6

how many males and females were in the control group?

Answer 6

2 males and 18 females

Question 7

describe the mock telephone call

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

how many names of people were going to the party?

Answer 8

8 names

Question 9

how many names of people and animals weren’t going to the party?

Answer 9

3 names and a cat

Question 10

describe the doodling condition

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

describe the control condition

Answer 11

they were given an A4 sheet of lined paper to write down the names.

Question 12

what was the monitoring task?

Answer 12

to remember the names of the people going to the party, nothing else.

Question 13

what was the recall task?

Answer 13

to recall the places mentioned in the call

Question 14

how many shapes were shaded?

Answer 14

36.3

Question 15

how much did the doodling group get in the monitoring task?

Answer 15

7.8/8

Question 16

how much did the control group get in the monitoring task?

Answer 16

7.1/8

Question 17

how much did the doodling group get in the recall task?

Answer 17

7.2/8

Question 18

how much did the control group get in the recall task?

Answer 18

4.5/8

Question 19

what were the conclusions?

Answer 19

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 20

attention:

Answer 20

the concentration of mental effort on a particular stimulus

Question 21

divided attention:

Answer 21

the ability to split mental effort between two or more simultaneous tasks

Question 22

daydreaming:

Answer 22

a mildly altered state of consciousness in which we experience sense of being ‘lost in our thoughts’

Question 23

focused attention:

Answer 23

the picking out of a particular input from massive information

Question 24

doodling:

Answer 24

the sketching of figures and shapes that are unrelated to a task

Question 25

working memory model:

Answer 25

suggests that two different types of current memory can be used at the same time

Question 26

what is the independent variable

Answer 26

doodling or control group

Question 27

what is the dependent variable

Answer 27

monitoring and recall tasks