Daydreaming as a Function of Cueing and Task Difficulty
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 37 (2) , 503-509
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1973.37.2.503
Abstract
The effects of demand characteristics and task difficulty upon the reported frequency of daydreaming were investigated. 71 Ss who performed 2 memory tasks of varying difficulty served in one of two control groups and an experimental group. Contrary to expectation, a suppression of daydreams occurred when Ss were cued that a report of daydreams was to be investigated. However, in line with our hypothesis a more difficult memory task resulted in a reduction in the amounts of reported daydreaming.Keywords
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