Eesha+S

Eesha S.  2011-2012
 * THE STUDY OF ACTIVITIES THAT INCREASE AND DECREASE MEMORY **

 The purpose of these experiments was to see what activities increase and decrease the amount of words that humans can remember. The human ear picks up sound waves and sends them to the brain where they are analyzed and in some cases, remembered. In this experiment, test subjects had to look at a piece of paper with words on it for 2 min, write down as many words as they could remember and then repeat the process while doing an activity while they were looking at the words. It was found that doing activities that required a lot of motion decreased the number words that were remembered, while doing activities that needed less movement did the opposite. This occurred because the test subjects couldn’t concentrate on the words that they were trying to remember.
 * ABSTRACT **


 * CONCLUSION **

In most experiments, the results indicated that when test subjects had to do a very active motion besides concentrating on the words, the number of words remembered decreased but when quieter and softer things were done, the opposite occurred. These results are important to the world because they need to know what activities help them to strengthen their memories and what activities decrease the capacity of their memory. The hypothesis was proved incorrect because pop music turned out to increase the number of words remembered. Some future follow-up experiments could be to test if the results change when test subjects of different genders do the experiments.

