Demonstration on Short-Term Memory (with words)
The second experiment we did in class was concerning with words. Numbers of words were recited in a list and we were to write down as many words as we can remember. There was however a confusion in the classroom because we all related this experiment to the previous one and we confused, thinking that we had to remember the words in order. However, because the whole class was confused, the results may have only affected our overall performance but not the individual’s performance, making the experiment still accurate.
Research says that the result usually acts like a serial affect where the graph curves down by the middle and curves back up by the end. This was because most people tend to remember the first few words being recited and the last few words being the ones they just heard. The word “night” was recited at least three times, making it the word with the highest number of people being able to recall the word “night”. A strange thing though was how people heard the word “sleep” without it being said. This is called constructive memory, how these people imagined they heard the word because they related it with other words being said, i.e. dark, bed and snoring. Psychologists said that if people chunk words together, it may be easier to remember; therefore, the words turn and toss should have been remembered together (meaning that the people to remember the word turn are most likely to remember toss. However, this was not proved in our experiment.
The lowest number collected was four whereas the highest was twelve. The mean of the data however, is two: proving the theory in the previous experiment that people can remember around seven pieces of information.
posted by Tat S. @ 10:40 AM
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