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Total Recall

Hannah Pohlmann Grade 9. Total Recall. Problem. Does one’s environment and age affect how well he or she studies/memorizes? Something I use every day Parents and rules. Research. Memory in General Short-term (used in this experiment)

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Total Recall

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  1. Hannah Pohlmann Grade 9 Total Recall

  2. Problem • Does one’s environment and age affect how well he or she studies/memorizes? • Something I use every day • Parents and rules

  3. Research • Memory in General • Short-term (used in this experiment) • Part of brain is the hippocampus, which is located inside the temporal lobes • Things remembered (such as words) and then quickly forgotten • Easily disrupted • Information is converted into long-term from short-term • Amnesia if there isn’t enough time to convert

  4. Research • Effects of Distraction on Memory–Tyler Jewett • Hypothesized that “the ability to recall words decreased as distraction increased” • Ability to ignore increases with age • Adults did about the same, but children did worse with a distraction • Do social factors and age affect memory?-Oxford • Hypothesized that: Memory/ Cognitive function is affected by lifestyle, family and other relationships, and a person’s feeling of control over his or her life • The young, healthy, educated, and people who feel they have control over their lives did the best • Most memory is based in confidence

  5. Research • WSJ and Wiley Online Library • Music and random digits hampered results • Preference made no difference • Did better with repeated digit and silence • Philly. Com • Hearing half of a conversation distracts much more than hearing a whole conversation • Random occurrences cause distraction, not just words by themselves

  6. Research • Science Direct • Noise from elevated train affects reading skills of children • Access Excellence-Brenda Brown • Similar to my project • Designed experiment using different conditions to test effects on memory

  7. Hypothesis • If one’s environment and age change, then how well he or she studies or memorizes will change too.

  8. Materials • Stopwatch • Informed consent permission slips • Volunteers • Lists of words • Music • TV • Chairs • Quiet rooms • Blank paper • Pencils

  9. Procedure • Wrote up 4 different lists of 30 words • Found 15 volunteers • Had volunteers memorize words for 2 minutes under different conditions • Using a different list every time • After each 2 minute interval, saw how many words the volunteers remembered • Giving them 2-3 minutes to recall what they memorized and write it down on provided paper • Correct lists • Checking for errors and or any patterns in memorization • Compared results to see how the volunteers were affected

  10. Variables • Independent: Environment used • Dependent: The person’s memory • Control: quiet and regular chair • Constant: duration of time used to recall and memorize the information and word lists

  11. Data (Environment)

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  14. Data (Age)

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  18. Conclusion • Teens are the best • Teens and children were not affected by environment • TV affected adults • All environments-teens are better than children • The adults are the same as the children except in the music environment • TV-Teens are best • Partially supports hypothesis • Results may have differed with a larger study • Subjects also got tired as the tests continued

  19. Thanks to: • Those listening, Teachers, Parents and the following sources: • Avril, Tom. "Half a conversation is worse than none." Philly.com. Philly.com, 27      Sept. 2010. Web. 26 Jan. 2011. <http://articles.philly.com/2010-09-27/      news/24978825_1_task-conversation-dot>. • Bronzaft, Arline L. "The effect of a noise abatement program on reading      ability." ScienceDirect. Elsevier, 8 July 2005. Web. 26 Jan. 2011.      <http://www.sciencedirect.com/ science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJ8-4GK8NN5-3&_user=10&_coverDate=09/30/      1981&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ac     ct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4a87cdf73e7c1868fc12ad5281f      a10e3&searchtype=a>. • Brown, Brenda. "Effects of Environment on Memory." Access Excellence . National      Health Museum, n.d. Web. 26 Jan. 2011. <http://www.accessexcellence.org/      AE/AEC/AEF/1996/brown_memory.php>. • Jewett, Tyler. "Effects of Distraction on Memory." Associated Content. Yahoo, 26      Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Feb. 2011. <http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/      1222108/effects_of_distraction_on_memory.html?cat=72>.

  20. Thanks To: • Perham, Nick, and Joanne Vizard. "Can preference for background music mediate      the irrelevant sound effect?" Wiely Online Library. JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd.,      2010. Web. 26 Jan. 2011. <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/      acp.1731/abstract>. • Scott, Jerry. "Zits." Comic strip. chron. The Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2011.      Web. 26 Jan. 2011. <http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/ showComick.mpl?date=20110125&name=Zits>. • Singer-Vine, Jeremy. "Music Impairs Certain Acts of Memorization." The Wall Street Journal 9 Aug. 2010: 1. The Wall Street Journal. Web. 26 Jan. 2011.      <http://online.wsj.com/article/      SB10001424052748703988304575413231864435268.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_health#arti     cleTabs%3Darticle>. • Stevens, Fred C.J., et al. "How ageing and social factors affect memory." CBS MoneyWatch.com. CBS Interactive Inc., July 1999. Web. 1 Feb. 2011.      <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2459/is_4_28/ai_55450324/pg_6/      ?tag=content;col1>.

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