Alcohol has many negative effects on the human body, especially on the central nervous system. The hippocampus in the brain is responsible for encoding sensory inputs into new memories. The past studies have shown that chronic alcohol use would increase the amount of inhibitory neurotransmitters, which weaken the ability of hippocampus to form explicit memories (Fernández et al., 1999). Over time, the neural inhibition caused by alcohol use would lead to cognitive impairment, including declines in attention, memory and learning abilities (Simon, 2013).
The work done in this experiment further investigates the outcome of frequent alcohol use on memory, by comparing the performance of subjects with different alcohol use frequency on the picture memory test. The null hypothesis for this experiment is that people who use alcohol weekly and who use alcohol monthly perform the same in the picture memory test. The alternative hypothesis is that people who consume alcohol …show more content…
To improve the precision of this experiment, more results of the picture memory test on subjects who drink monthly need to be collected in order to increase the sample size (n). As the sample sizes for both sets become closer, the difference between them would have less influence on the outcome of the t-test.
Signifying the influence of frequent alcohol consumption on memory, this experiment would warn college students about the negative impacts caused by frequent alcohol on their academic performance, and the necessity to change their drinking habit. In the future, some studies may be conducted to find out whether reducing the drinking frequency or reducing the amount of alcohol consumed every time has less impact on memory, so that college students who are not able to quit drinking alcohol would correctly change their drinking
The work done in this experiment further investigates the outcome of frequent alcohol use on memory, by comparing the performance of subjects with different alcohol use frequency on the picture memory test. The null hypothesis for this experiment is that people who use alcohol weekly and who use alcohol monthly perform the same in the picture memory test. The alternative hypothesis is that people who consume alcohol …show more content…
To improve the precision of this experiment, more results of the picture memory test on subjects who drink monthly need to be collected in order to increase the sample size (n). As the sample sizes for both sets become closer, the difference between them would have less influence on the outcome of the t-test.
Signifying the influence of frequent alcohol consumption on memory, this experiment would warn college students about the negative impacts caused by frequent alcohol on their academic performance, and the necessity to change their drinking habit. In the future, some studies may be conducted to find out whether reducing the drinking frequency or reducing the amount of alcohol consumed every time has less impact on memory, so that college students who are not able to quit drinking alcohol would correctly change their drinking