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Discussion: Experiment #3
The general purpose of the study was to nd if there would be
a
di erence in the performance of the participants if their
attention was
undivided or divided The hypothesis stated that the participants
were
more li!ely to commit errors when simultaneously saying the
numbers
and writing the letters "nd based from the results there was
a
discrepancy between the undivided attention and the divided
attention$ having the group whose attention was divided to score
lower
than those whose attention was undivided
"n underlying mechanism that could explain the results
obtained
from the divided attention group is the
%esponse&'election&(ottlenec!
)odel *%'(+ which states that the processing of information is
done
one at a time and is similar to the psychological refractory
period
concept "lso processing is se,uential wherein the previous stage
has
to be completed before the following stage can begin -n
comparison
the locus&of&slac! logic proposed by 'ternberg has the
same basic
notion *.ogan / 0atter 122 + -n addition according to (rewer
(all
4night Dewitt and )arsh *1252+ ful lling activity&based
intentions are
interfered when one6s attention was divided 7n the other hand
the
study conducted by .ee and .ee *1252+ revealed that forgetting
certain
aspects of each tas! could happen in divided attention
8urthermore
counting bac!wards had a signi cant e ect on performance and
may
have facilitated forgetting of some instructions *.ee / .ee
1252+
"dditionally another concept that may have occurred is tas!
switching
-n the study done by "rrington / 9ates *122 + the "ttention
;etwor!
Test *";T+ shows that an important factor to consider in tas!
switching
is the executive networ!s To illustrate a high executive score
in the
";T would implicate a high correlation to voluntary tas!
switching This
simply implies that sub
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by 8eldman / )athy *1251+ reveals that complex and
incompressible
se,uences are more di=cult to remember compared to simple
and
more compressible se,uences The amount of time may have also
been an important factor "ccordingly the experiment had used
complex se,uences that may have increased the di=culty in
memory
retention and had varying amounts of time di erentiated among
the
three groups .astly maintenance rehearsal or simply rehearsal is
a
!ey factor that goes hand in hand with chun!ing as it increases
the
length of time the information stays in wor!ing memory
*'antroc!
1251+
7verall the results re
