Evaluation
One strength of the study.
What is high control and standardization?
This was the main aim of the study.
What is testing whether doodling improves concentration during a boring task?
Participants listened to this.
What is a monotonous telephone message?
The better performing group.
What is the doodling group?
focusing on one task only.
What is selective attention?
One weakness of the study.
What is low in mundane realism?
This was the experimental design that used two different groups.
What is an independent groups design?
What the doodling group did during the task.
What is shading/coloring shapes?
Average of correct items doodlers recalled.
What is around 7.5-7.8?
Handling more than one task simultaneously.
What is divided attention?
This happens mostly when participants know they're being studied/watched.
What are demand characteristics?
The independent variable in the experiment.
What is doodling vs. no doodling?
The total number of participants in the study?
What is 40?
What fewer false alarms indicate.
What is better accuracy?
Short term memory capacity.
What is 7± items?
This ethical issue occurred but was justified and explained later.
What is deception?
The dependent variable of the study.
What are memory recall scores?
What the participants did after listening.
What is recalling names and places?
What doodling encourages in the brain.
What is deeper processing of information?
How long short term memory lasts without rehersal.
What is around 30 seconds?
Why the deception was made acceptable.
What is because participants were eventually debriefed?
Type of sampling/recruiting.
What is opportunity sampling?
How participants were placed into groups.
What is random assignment?
What higher monitoring scores suggest.
What is improved attention and memory processing?
The process that moves info to long term memory.
What is rehersal?