Do Seductive Details Do Their Damage in the Context of Graph Comprehension? Insights from Eye Movements

Autor/inn/en	Strobel, Benjamin; Grund, Simon; Lindner, Marlit Annalena
Titel	Do Seductive Details Do Their Damage in the Context of Graph Comprehension? Insights from Eye Movements
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33 (2019) 1, S.95-108 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Strobel, Benjamin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3491
Schlagwörter	Attention; Graphs; Comprehension; Eye Movements; Spatial Ability; Short Term Memory; Cognitive Processes; Task Analysis; Time + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Grafische Darstellung; Verstehen; Verständnis; Augenbewegung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufgabenanalyse; Zeit
Abstract	In educational research, interesting but irrelevant materials are often considered seductive details, which are suspected to have detrimental effects on learning. Although seductive details have been mostly examined in the context of text comprehension, such elements are also used in graphs (e.g., depicting data points). In the present experiment, we investigated both seductive text and seductive pictures in the context of graph comprehension as well as the interaction of seductive details with spatial working memory capacity (SWMC). We recorded N = 68 students' eye movements, while they analyzed bar graphs in a within-subject design. Data were analyzed with linear mixed-effects models. Results show that seductive details did not affect students' graph reading performance but prolonged the task processing time. Eye-fixation measures revealed that additional processing time was best explained by attention distraction towards the seductive material. SWMC did not affect the presence or the extent of the seductive details effect. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01