Rather than rise to this challenge with the gumption I should have, I decided to draw whatever was on my mind onto a piece of scrap paper. My art class teacher has thrown down the gauntlet (to show off what we have learned about light and shadow) for the semester. Even further questioning its effectiveness on daydreaming as another confounding variable considered in this study.In a mood strongly influenced by procrastination, I spent the time I should have been working on my final project on random doodles. Future mechanisms of doodling on concentration could be “help keeping people awake or reducing the high levels of autonomic arousal often associated with boredom”. In some cases it would seem unclear to assume doodling effected their ability to notice “target names” or memorize and process directly the message as a whole. The form of the doodling task itself was restricted to “shape-shading” which would’ve taken away some “degree of abstent-mindness” from actually doodling. Therefore, multiple confounding variables appeared to be effective. Despite the fact that the participants weren’t randomly chosen, they were randomly assigned to their respective control or doodling group where they were all asked to recall information from a telephone message. According to Jackie Andrade’s first experimental test’s study, she accepted her null hypothesis that “doodling aids concentration”.
However, those who do it come no where close to wondering if it impairs or aids their concentration. Many of us don’t assume doodling to be anything more than mindless drawing done to pass by time, lectures, meetings, phone calls, you name it.
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