IMPACT OF COGNITIVE LOADING ON RECALL OF NAMESBY CASSIE C. STRICKLANDREINHARDT UNIVERSITY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS•Reinhart University & the Psychology department•Dr. Katrina Smith•Kristina Jones•Adrienne Lawrence•Aleah Cooper

OVERVIEW•Background•Hypothesis•Participants•Methods•Findings•Discussion

BACKGROUND•Working Memory• Helder and Shaughnessy name recall study (2008)• Math Task• Long-term retention

HYPOTHESIS• People will remember more names when playing a familiar

card game than a unfamiliar card game.

PARTICIPANTS•39 student volunteers agreed to participate in one of two randomly selected card games (Uno or Werewolves)•Gender distribution of participants: 66% females and 33.3% males

PARTICIPANTS CONTINUED Percentages

Ethnicity

74.4% White10.3% Black/African

American2.6% Asian/Pacific

Islander5.1% Biracial7.7% unidentified

Percentages Majors

23.1% Biology17.9% Education7.7% Psychology2.6% Criminal

Justice5.1% Undecided10.7% Communicatio

n7.7% Graphic Design5.1% Sociology2.6% Music2.6% English2.6% Digital Film2.6% Math2.6% Sports Media2.6% Theater2.6% History2.6% Creative

Writing

METHODS

•Games: Uno and The Werewolves•Middle names•Photographs (for later ID)•Questionnaire

FINDINGS

• Unfamiliar game: recalled 4 to 5 names (Mode = 4 and 5, M = 3.24, SD = 2.00)

• Familiar game: recalled 3 names (Mode = 3, M = 3.35, SD = 3.35) • Independent t-test preformed on card games and recall t (37)

= .60, p > 0.05.

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Percentages

Questionnaire questions

53.8% No friends46.2% Yes friends2.6% No card games with new

people97.4% Yes card games with new

people46.2% Yes talked53.8% No talked48.7% No before51.3% Yes before66.7% Yes helpful33.3% No helpful100% Enjoy card games46.2% Yes talked to people more53.8% No talked to people more

DISCUSSION•Proactive Interference •First names•Not actively repeated•Larger Sample•Rehearsal and repetition