Distraction Affecting People Having Short-Term Memory

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In conclusion, this experiment showed that being distraction doesn't affect people having short-term memory, since it scored a mean recall 19.7(video) compared to 17.4 (silent). This experiment may not be all related to the original study, Lloyd and Peterson Margaret (1976) for the reason his experiment was not the same as our experiment.It tend to led to the same results. Peterson and Margaret test showed, there are the similar between recalls of short-term memory. It was reported that most participants have a big distraction but it does not affect participant's having a short- term memory. These findings are not consistent with the predictions of Lloyd and Margaret Peterson (1976) Short-Term Forgetting in the participant's use of distraction led to lower recall. Lloyd and Peterson Margaret does not support the hypothesis of …show more content…
Lloyd and Margaret Peterson (1976) participant’s performance fell off rapidly then more slowly, it drops of 30 percent retention. The participant’s performance settles down to a poor 10 percent retention. Participants would remember earliest items on the list then items that were name last. This might be because we obtained different results; that distraction does not led people’s having short-term memory and forgetting about events and details immediately. Additionally, we discovered that individual participants don’t have a hard time as others do at being focus and working at the same time. Distraction is not a big factor of people having to forget about important details during life time. This indicates that people use the excuse of distraction to forget about details and events during the day. Also, it’s very easy to get distracted easily people get distracted