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What is doodling?
doodling is the aimless sketching of shapes and patterns that are unrelated to the original task.
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How can the working memory model explain doodling and increased concentration
Since doodling and listening to an auditory phonecall are opposites, one is am auditory task and the other is an visuao spatial task and so the central executive that helps prioritize information would attach importance to the phone call and cause l
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cause greater attention to the phone call and less central function to the doodling
Doodling may help arousal by decreasing boredom since you have something alternative to do which is physical and allows movement.
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What is the working memory model?
There are two types of working or current memories that can be used at the same time. The vis spatial and the auditory. The central executive prioritises information so it enters the memory.
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Focused attention
The picking out of input from a stream of information on the basis of priority, listening to your teacher when you hear cars and the rain outside.
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What is divided attention
The ability to split mental effort in two or more simultaneous tasks easy when tasks are simple and practised. The primary task is the main task and the additional task is the concurrent task that is happening at the same time.
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What is daydreaming?
A state of being detached from the environment and in a mild and altered state of consciousness because there is a sense of ''lost in thought'' which are normally positive.
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How is the study unique?
It is the first study that aims to study a positive hypothesis regarding doodling aiding concentration.
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What was the doodling condition asked to do?
The were given a response sheet with shapes to color in to encourage a simple task and were asked not to worry about the neatness since dooling was there to reduce boredom.
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Why were already drawn shapes given?
The easy doodling task would encourage an absent mindedness just like in the real life and would reduce a self conscious effort of making the coloring look aesthetic.
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What would happen if participants would be conscious of their doodling?
The doodling task would not be representative of real life since doodling in real life is carefree and not focused by the drawer.
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Describe the sample
40 participants from the MRC applied psychology unit ranging from 18 to 55 years, payed a sum of money and had completed a task before. Recall order was counterbalanced.
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Describe the phone call
The phone call was at low volume and it 227 words per minute were spoken. Containing 8 names of those who attended and 3 ppl and a cat not attending 8 places
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What attempts were made to bore the participant
Dull room, low voice, already did task before.
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Describe paper
4.5 margin on the left, 10 shapes per row alternating between squares and circles.
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Ethical guideline
Consent, debriefing, memory test, suspicion.
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How many doodles were shaded
36.3 doodled one participant did not doodle - discarded
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Describe control
7.1 words correctly remembered, 5 false alarms 9 scored 8
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Describe doodling
7.8 words correctly remembered and 1 false alarm 15 scored 8
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How were the names operationalised .
Misspelling or hearing such as Greg for craig were counted, new names false alarm
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Lackings
Does show that doodling aids memory but does not describe how by increasing deeper processing or by simply increasing arousal.
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Weakness regarding daydreaming
There was no measure of daydreaming during the task, self reports or FMRIs of the cortex region could prove day dreaming
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Participants could not catch daydreaming and return to the task since they were not told about the memory task
Could help alter worry, anxiety, phobia
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Names coming
Craig, william claire
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Not coming
Nigel, John
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Places
Edinburgh, peterborough
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