David+W14

David W 2013-2014
 * A STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEMORY **

The purpose of this series of experiments was to learn about memory in boys, girls, men and women, as well as to identify easier and harder things to remember. Memory is the process of learning information through the senses, storing it, and later accessing the information. For the most important experiment, 10 pictures and 10 words were shown separately for 15 sec, and then after 15 sec written the remembered words or pictures for 30 sec, and for sounds the same process repeated. It was learned that pictures were remembered the most, and words heard were remembered the least. It is assumed that this is because the pictures were larger and the color made it easier for the brain to store the information.
 * ABSTRACT **

One thing that could have done better at is predetermining the number of subjects that were to be used in the test. The number of people tested varied drastically from experiments 1 and 2. It was done experiments 3 and 4 and discovered that it was much more effective. Another thing that could be improved was better understanding and explaining the results. A future experiment that could be done would be testing the different age's memories and learning at what age memory was the most effective.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

The finished paper can be accessed by clicking on this. 