Method
Participants
Participants for this experiment were the students attending their psychology 101 class during normal class hours. The entire class consisted of thirteen males and eleven females all of which attend Western New England University and all had agreed to participate in the experiment.
Materials
The material used was simply two different answer sheets, one half of the participants got one, while the other half got the other answer sheet. One answer sheet had basic instructions of the experiment while the other had more detailed instructions and hints on how to succeed at the experiment.
Procedure
The students were divided into two groups, Group A and Group B. There was no choosing of who was in each groups, the class was simply …show more content…
The experiment had proven that even the tiniest detail of positive influence toward the subject would better their score. As proven in the Laird Experiment, organization of material to be remembered and the answer sheet to match would result in more material learned than a strewed answer sheet and material to be memorized. The organization of information within the mind is key to memorizing material when it needs to be recalled immediately or within 10 to 15 minutes. This experiment further proves that slight hints, or instructions, on how to organize material in the mind are important when memorizing certain numbers, words, or phrases. Rather than altering the experiments structure of the answering of material such as in the Laird experiment, this experiment had simply included a tip on how to help the mind organize the thoughts and information given right in the instructions on the paper. When the students were instructed the best way to memorize the material, they had memorized more and achieved a higher score. For further research it is recommended that subjects (male or female, race, age, year of college) be recorded as there could be a difference in memory say between males and females in comparison. It is also recommended that attempting this experiment with the words written on the board rather than being spoken. Having the professor speak the words rather than just writing them down could cause a stray in the results as some students may not interpret the words as the professor believes they are announcing them. For further experimentation in this field of study of memorization, using different age groups or different collegiate levels in comparison to each other would prove to be a considerable experiment. Are students who are more academically experienced more capable of retrieving immediate
Participants
Participants for this experiment were the students attending their psychology 101 class during normal class hours. The entire class consisted of thirteen males and eleven females all of which attend Western New England University and all had agreed to participate in the experiment.
Materials
The material used was simply two different answer sheets, one half of the participants got one, while the other half got the other answer sheet. One answer sheet had basic instructions of the experiment while the other had more detailed instructions and hints on how to succeed at the experiment.
Procedure
The students were divided into two groups, Group A and Group B. There was no choosing of who was in each groups, the class was simply …show more content…
The experiment had proven that even the tiniest detail of positive influence toward the subject would better their score. As proven in the Laird Experiment, organization of material to be remembered and the answer sheet to match would result in more material learned than a strewed answer sheet and material to be memorized. The organization of information within the mind is key to memorizing material when it needs to be recalled immediately or within 10 to 15 minutes. This experiment further proves that slight hints, or instructions, on how to organize material in the mind are important when memorizing certain numbers, words, or phrases. Rather than altering the experiments structure of the answering of material such as in the Laird experiment, this experiment had simply included a tip on how to help the mind organize the thoughts and information given right in the instructions on the paper. When the students were instructed the best way to memorize the material, they had memorized more and achieved a higher score. For further research it is recommended that subjects (male or female, race, age, year of college) be recorded as there could be a difference in memory say between males and females in comparison. It is also recommended that attempting this experiment with the words written on the board rather than being spoken. Having the professor speak the words rather than just writing them down could cause a stray in the results as some students may not interpret the words as the professor believes they are announcing them. For further experimentation in this field of study of memorization, using different age groups or different collegiate levels in comparison to each other would prove to be a considerable experiment. Are students who are more academically experienced more capable of retrieving immediate