Doodling Do By Jackie Andrade: Article Analysis

What does doodling does, by Jackie Andrade was a study published in 2009 studying the effect of doodling on the ability to retrieve information from memory. Forty random subjects coming from a previous unrelated experiment age 18 to 55 years were recruited for a short five minute experiment, where participants were divided into two groups. The control group, the group not doodling and the doodling group. The group doodling was asked to shade printed shapes while listening to a boring message, the participants in this group were told to listen and record the name of people who were definitely or possibly coming to a surprise birthday party while they shade, and the control group were asked to just listen to the message and record the names on a plain piece of paper. The purpose of asking the experimental group to shade the printed shapes was to counter boredom, and when most people are bored they tend to daydream. The author aims to measure how doodling helps mitigate the daydreaming by given the subject dual task in order to keep them occupied and less bored, and how doodling aids concentration. “Control participants correctly wrote down a mean of 7.1 (SD ¼ 1.1) of the eight names of party-goers during the tape; five people made a false …show more content…
Doodling participants correctly wrote a mean of 7.8 (SD ¼ 0.4) names of party-goers…”(Andrade) From this result the author was able to prove her hypothesis, people who doodle have a greater concentration and therefore were able to recall information better than