All Purpose Memory Activity
















In this activity, a group of words was spoken to us with 1second interval. Then after we are to recall the words. The result, showed that serial position effect was somewhat effecting the result. The first word and the last word, Bed and dream were easily recalled. This implies that the order, primacy and recency, has some effect. Semantic distinctiveness has also influences our attentiveness to a word. The word, artichoke, thus comes up as a common. Rehearsal also improves recall. This is demonstrated as the word night is repeated 3 times. Night is recalled with 100% accuracy. Sleep was one word recalled but Mr. Anthony never said. This implies that memory is a reconstruction process not a roll back of a tape. This is because sleep has the same schema as the other words. Thus we added it to the list of words even though the actual event, of saying the word did not happen. Thus the memory is distorted. Chucking could also have had an effect. Tossing and turning is a common American idiom. A person common to this idiom can easily use this technique to recall this word. As chunking is the grouping of information into units of meaningful events. This experiment has yielded any results. I find this experiment very interesting yet effective.