Eddie+S

=**The Study of Trail-making Test Times While the Body is Exposed to Various Distractions**=

Eddie S
2011-2012


 * ABSTRACT**

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether having a test subject do something like eat candy or listen to music would increase or decrease their test performance. Before experiments were performed, research was done that showed information including that the brain and the tongue have a sort of relationship with each other, and the human ear is a very complex machine that allows a human to not only hear but have balance. Experiments were done by having test subjects take either Trail-making test A or Trail-making test B, (they were not just picked at random; each experiment had a set test that would be taken by the test subjects) with something added, like eating candy or listening to music. The results showed that adding certain things like candy or music had both positive and negative effects. This meant that adding something like music or candy can be helpful and improve performances on tests, but they can also become a distraction.=====

CONCLUSION
The results of these experiments show that in most cases, having a test subject eat candy, adding letters to a test that just has numbers or moving lamps further away from a test subject has a negative effect on their performance. However, the results also show that having a test subject do something like listen to music does in most cases have a fairly positive affect on their performance. This data is very important to the world because it shows that listening to music while performing a certain task can enhance that performance, but adding things like candy can almost become a distraction and has a negative effect on whatever task may be being performed. The hypothesis was correct, that having a test subject eat candy or listen to music can have both a positive and negative affect. An interesting future follow-up experiment might be to try to have a test subject do all of these things at once; eat candy, while listening to music, while having a lamp far away, while taking Trail-making test B.