Procedure
What was the Independent Variable?
Whether they doodled or didn't
How many people where there in the sample?
40
How was extraneous variables limited?
Lab Experiment
Did the doodling group perform better when recalling names? (Yes or no)
Yes
What was the research design?
Independent measures design
What were they told they would be tested on or asked to recall?
Partygoers or names of Places
What where they members of?
Medical Research Council of the Applied Psychology Unit
How was the procedure standardized?
They made all participants equally likely to be bored and therefore daydream. For example, the same monotonous recording was used and all participants were sat in a dull quiet room.
Did the non-doodling group do better when recalling name of places? (Yes or no)
No
What was the dependent variable?
How many names the participant recalled.
What did they listen to?
A phone call
What type of sampling technique was used?
Opportunity sampling
Explain how the study was generalized or explain how it wasn't generalized.
Participants' age ranged from 18-55 years thus, were representative. However, they are from a recruitment panel and may be very similar.
State the conclusion of the study.
Doodling helps concentration on a primary task as doodling participants performed better than participants who only listened to the primary task.
What counted as false alarms?
Totally wrong names
Where were they in when listening to the audio?
A dull quiet room
Where they paid a sum to do the study? (Yes or no)
Yes!
How was the quantitative and qualitative data objective?
The number of names and places. This is an objective record of memory. It would have had been helpful to ask participants for self-reports of any daydreaming to understand whether differences in results were due to attention or daydreaming.
What was the mean of names the non-doodling group recalled?
5.8
How was the final score measured?
The final score was the number of correct names minus the number of false alarms.
2.5 minutes
How many men where in the doodling group originally?
3 males
Explain how the study could have been unethical.
Participants did not give informed consent fully for the recall task. This may have caused psychological distress.
What was the mean of the names the doodling group recalled?
7.8
What was the animal mentioned in the phone call?
Cat