Table 5.

The results of ANOVAs comparing encoding and delay distraction resistance ability between participants who reported playing games with a puzzle, strategy or action component and those who did not. For younger participants the degrees of freedom = 1,234, for older participants degrees of freedom = 1, 194).

	Main effect of game type			Main effect of distraction type			Interaction between game type and distraction type
Younger Adults	F	p	η2	F	p	η2	F	p	η2
Puzzle	2.11	0.148	0.01	0.03	0.876	<0.01	0.02	0.903	<0.01
Strategy	20.27	<0.001	0.08	0.01	0.912	<0.01	<0.01	0.998	<0.01
Action	2.71	0.101	0.01	0.01	0.922	<0.01	0.31	0.578	<0.01
Older Adults
Puzzle	13.66	<0.001	0.07	1.01	0.316	<0.01	4.12	0.044	0.02
Strategy	4.92	0.028	0.03	0.09	0.762	<0.01	0.20	0.656	<0.01