Investigating the relationship between technology and spatial memory
| dc.contributor | Merril, Edward | |
| dc.contributor | Weber, Joe | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Roskos-Ewoldsen, Beverly | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mendoza, Jessica | |
| dc.contributor.other | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-04T14:57:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-04T14:57:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A vast majority of the literature on technology usage has found evidence that when individuals rely heavily on technology usage there is a cost to cognitive processes in the areas of attention, learning, and memory (Sparrow, Liu, & Wegner, 2011; Kuznekoff & Titsworth; 2013; Eyyam & Yaratan, 2014). However, the literature lacks depth in understanding the relationship between technology and wayfinding. This study that investigated the relationship between wayfinding and mobile device usage. Participants completed several questionnaires that assessed wayfinding strategies, spatial anxiety, and familiarity of the environment of which they navigated in. Additionally, participants also completed several questionnaires that assessed for their technology use and dependency on technology such as nomophobia. After completing the questionnaires, participants were asked to study a map of the UA campus and develop a route that they would take to Marrs Spring. Next, participants were asked to leave their phones in the laboratory and began to navigate to the destination displayed on the map. Researchers followed the participants as they found their way to the destination and recorded the time taken to complete the wayfinding task and also recorded the route taken by the participant. When participants returned to the laboratory, they were asked to verbally recall as many landmarks as possible. Finally, participants were asked to draw out the route that they took going to and from Marrs Spring. It was predicted that those who report to experience nomophobia would recall less from their surrounding environment. Through a correlational approach, researchers found supporting evidence that there was a negative relationship between measures of nomophobia and remembrance of the landmarks recalled when traveling to and from the destination. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 68 p. | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.other | u0015_0000001_0002864 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Mendoza_alatus_0004M_13214 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/3540 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Alabama Libraries | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | born digital | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections | |
| dc.rights | All rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Psychology | |
| dc.title | Investigating the relationship between technology and spatial memory | en_US |
| dc.type | thesis | |
| dc.type | text | |
| etdms.degree.department | University of Alabama. Department of Psychology | |
| etdms.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
| etdms.degree.grantor | The University of Alabama | |
| etdms.degree.level | master's | |
| etdms.degree.name | M.A. |
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