Video Creation 2

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By Jessel Jeffords & April Hester

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Sustained Attention

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(Al-Menayes, 2015)

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Increased Social Media Use May Be Associated With Negative Education Outcomes

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Dopamine Reward Cycle

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(Macït, Macït, & Güngör, 2018)

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Does Screen Time Affect Sustained Attention?

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Our Experiment: Correlational study designed using tools from Psytoolkit Included a survey question about participant screen time per day task that analyzes sustained attention

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About our experiment

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Convenience sample (social media) 16 participants Age range: 18 - 99 Gender: 10 female 4 male 2 non-binary Consent form Demographic questions Screen time questions

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Sustained Attention to Response Task: the SART task

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(Robertson et al., 1997)

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Steps of the SART Task: 1. Use the space bar to respond 2. Select numbers ranging 1-9 3. Except for the number 3

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results

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No significant positive correlation between: SART task (M = 17.467, SD = 33.935) and Screen time (M = 2.667, SD = 1.134 ) r = 0.297 p > .05

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Sample Size Required Computer With Keyboard Online Participant Recruitment

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Limitations

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References: Al-Menayes, J. (2015). Social Media Use, Engagement and Addiction as Predictors of Academic Performance. Canadian Center of Science and Education, 7, 86-94. Macït, H. B., Macït, G., & Güngör, O. (2018). A research on social media addiction and dopamine driven feedback. Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 5(3), 882-897. Robertson, I.H., Manly, T., Andrade, J., Baddeley, B.T., Yiend, J. (1997). 'Oops!': performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 35(6), 747-75 Sustained attention to response task (SART). (n.d.). Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/sart.html