Andrade (evaluation, Issues And Debates)

Question 1

Situational explanations:doodling

Answer 1

• As doodling affected recall, this means doodling has a situational effect on info processing.

-Andrade deliberately ensured her ppts would be bored and more likely to doodle, implying there are situational causes for doodling (boredom)
- The task itself may have led to an improvement in concentration and focus

Question 2

Individual explanations : doodling

Answer 2

• Ppts all doodled in differnent ways
• Which could be based on personality type
• Extraverts may need to do more than 1 thing at once to help stimualte themsleves and concentrate better
• suggesting **individual differences **behind doodling behaviour

Question 3

Nature: doodling

Answer 3

• differences in attention/memory could have been responsible for differences in recall.
• Which could have been caused by biological differences such as enlarged areas in the temporal lobe or hippocampus

Question 4

Nurture: Doodling

Answer 4

• Some ppts had higher scores then others
• peoples life experiences could affect their ability to focus on the primary task
• Some may use doodling to help them more. These experiences or habit could be learnt during school or as part of work related learning (more time in education)

Question 5

What is one thing people should consider before using the results of the study to apply to their daily lives?

Answer 5

1. Doodling can be advantageous but the doodling must be UNDEMANDING as in Andrade’s study doodling was a simple process designed to not interfere with the primary task.

Question 6

Application to everyday life

Answer 6

-Workers and students should be allowed to doodle whilst working on boring tasks as this will improve concentration