Distractor Task

In the current study, participants had to memorize a character set of either consonants or digits and were presented with a distractor task that was similar or dissimilar to the corresponding character set. The study did show a difference between similar character sets and distractor tasks having lower recall rates, however, they were not sufficient enough to prove that the results happened by chance. Current research by Chiu & Egner (2015) show that the results indicated that switching tasks, reduce memory for distractors, and that when presented with focusing on the distractor tasks reduces encoding the previous information. Although, the results to the current study correspond with the findings of Gronau, Cohen, & Ben-Shakhar (2009). The results of the current study failed to support the hypothesis; however, there is sufficient evidence to prove that this effect exists, and that further research needs to be tested. It is important to note that learning a set of stimuli with a distractor in a given time frame will cause issues of recall. There were many possible issues as to why these results occurred, one of which is having the participants learn a set of consonants, then do a distractor …show more content…
Likewise, those who perceive memorizing and recalling a set of characters with high difficulty should then produce a lower number of correct recalls. The current study did not support the hypothesis due to the results not signifying their outcomes entirely being by chance; however, there was evidence that there was a difference between similar character type and distractor task in comparison to dissimilar character types and distractor tasks. Additionally, the evidence of the current study did not show an interaction between the perceived difficulty and number of correct