Thursday, 31 May 2012

How to get the results for "Does music help you memorize"


Equipment needed:

1.Headphones
2. Ipod
3. Modern music
4. Classical music
5. Numbers printed on cardboard in a line 
6. Paper with box to write the numbers in, persons name, age, sex and a box to tick for permission to tell results to other people. 
7. Stop watch 

Instructions...

1. I am going to give a person doing the experiment 2 types of music to listen to (classical and modern) while they are having numbers shown in front of them.
2. Person puts on headphones 
3. I (Louis) will press button on iPod to start the music
4. I will lay down a set list of 25 numbers mounted on cardboard in front of them
5. First type of music to test them on will be Classical music, then modern music, then no music
6. I will start stopwatch 
7. I will wait for 10 seconds 
8. After ten seconds I will take away the numbers and continue to play the music while they write down as many numbers in order as they can remember on the piece of 
paper provided
10. I will see how well the person did by giving 3 points for what they did best, 2 points for what the did second best and 1 point on what they did worst.
11. Then they will fully full out the sheet given to them and will give the sheet to me when done. Then move on to the next person!
12. At the end of the experiment I will add the scores together and find out my results!

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