Andrade’s study

Questions
1) What were the two conditions in Andrade’s study
- The doodling and control group were the two conditions of
Andrade’s study
2) How did Andrade measure the effect of IV in this study?
-Andrade measured the effect of IV using Quantitative data based
on the results he obtained from the study
3) Andrade used many ways to control variables. Choose one and
explain why it is important to the success of the study.
-Same 2-and-a-half-minute phone call for all 40 participants as it
shows that all participants are listening to same call and not
different phone call as this shows it is a fair test and all participants
are treated equally
4) Andrade found that the doodling group were better at recalling
both the monitored and incidental information. Why did this
make it difficult to draw a conclusion?
- Andrade found it difficult to draw a conclusion because Andrade
did not test daydreaming so cannot determine for sure whether
doodling reduces daydreaming and that is why it was hard to draw
a conclusion
Answers from textbook:
1)doodling and non-doodling(control) group
2) by recall of names and places mentioned in the mock telephone
call
3) eg: all of the participants had some paper to use to write their
responses at the end. It was important that non-doodlers had paper
during the experimental procedure rather than being given it at the
end. This controlled for any anxiety the non-doodling participants
might have felt about being quick enough to write down what they
recalled if they fi not have paper available to them as this distress
could have limited their ability to recall
4) eg: it means there are two ways the results could be explained.
Either the difference in the results could be due to an effect of
attention- the doodlers noticed more target words, because
doodling increased their arousal and reduced daydreaming.
Alternatively the difference in the results could because doodling
directly improved memory for eg by making participants process
the telephone call more deeply