Science+Experiment1

=Scientific Method 1 =
 * Topic:** Does black and white printed words affects human memory.


 * Question:**which one affects memory better? color or black print


 * Background Information:**i got some background information from a science website where scientist had that idea and put it to test.Then this 7th grade girl looked at their website and tried that experiment. She won a prize for her science project on all-science-fair-projects.com.Tripathi, Ramesh. and Brenda "Color," World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, pg. 816-827, 1991 .Is the Name of the book she read about does color affect the brain's memory. I was also looking through some websites on the 7th grade girl's website they had some information on the topic.There was also another website that had various techniques about memory learning.It had images to see if that could effect your memory. It was similar to my project about colors. This is the website [|http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTIM_01.htm]

I also learned that there are three different types of memory .There's long-term memory,short term memory,and sensory memory. Each type helps you to remember different things. There are three types of long-term memory all are from a different system. They are Episodic, Semantic, and Procedural. Episodic memory helps you to remember an event that happened in your past. Like when you first learned to ride a bike. Semantic helps you to remember information you have been learning in school alot like math facts and history. Then Procedural helps you remember different procedures such as writing or playing sports.Short-term memory does not have different categories. Short-term memory gives you the ability to remember certain information when it is needed. Like my spelling questions the brain remembers it for a short time when needed. Some experts say color will make people remember objects better. Others say black and white will help you remember them more successfully. some say it doesn't matter.

Pyschologist also have determined that color in a scene helps you remember that moment. [|http://www.apa.org/releases/incolor.html] It also says by hanging an extra "tag" of data on visual scenes, color helps us to process and store images more efficiently than colorless (black and white) scenes, and as a result to remember them better, too. They also said that some trio of psychologist in Europe conducted some experiments.Some people looked at 48 photographs, half in color and half in black and white. Then, they looked at the same 48 images randomly mixed with 48 new images, and told the pyschologist. If they had seen (or not) each picture. The people remembered the colored natural scenes significantly better than they remembered black and white images, no matter of how long they saw the images. I think this paragraph helps strenthgen my hypothesis. That colored print will be remembered bettter than black and white print.


 * Hypothesis:**I think that colored print would be better remembered than black print because it would give off more attention than plain print for example advertisements that are colored get peoples attention and kids attention i think if there is colored print it would make you study it more than regular paper.I also think that black and white print is just so plain and boring so it could affect you somehow

1. get all of the materials 2. Get together a small test group 6 people,3 boys and 3 girls 3. Have the people sit in the same room away from each other. 4. Read the instructions to the group before they see answer sheet #1 5. Hand out sheet #1(the spelling words) 6. Tell them to read the list carefully for two minutes. 7. After exactly two minutes, take away the list. 8. Let them leave for half an hour before giving them sheet #2 9. After half the hour is over call the kids back to take sheet #2 10. Give each person sheet #2 11. Read them the words they have to spell 12. Give them two minutes to select their answers on List #2. 13. After the two minutes are over, get all of the tests. 14. Check their answers with a key that has all the right answers. 15. Record the information. 16. Compare the data to see if they remembered words in color better, or words in black and white.
 * Procedure:**

**materials**
1.six Children 2.20 questions 3.6 colored paper with the answers 4.6 regular paper with the answers 5.6 pencils 7.seats


 * Experiment:**I did the test on 6 people and it seems that black print is remembered more easily because once you seen the colored list and do the test and you don't do so well. In test 2 you might look even closer i didn't tell them what words they got wrong though.They just looked closer to the words and revised them so the results came up better for the black print.I even tried to switch up the order black print first then colored print second.

These are the words i used Abrupt,Accede,Accelerate,Accidentally,Familiar,obstacle,offense,guild,Aspect,Abuse,Engineer,Obligate,Mistreat,Misunderstood,System, Tailor,Rodeo,Odor,Offense,Genuine
 * Data/Results:These are the results below it seems that people remember black and white print better.**
 * Studens || Black and white print || color print ||
 * Derek H || 9/20 9 out of 20 || 11/20 11 of 20 ||
 * Justin || 17/20 17 of 20 || 15/20 15 of 20 ||
 * Jordan K || 16/20 16 of 20 || 11/20 11 of 20 ||
 * Lucas || 16/20 16 of 20 || 13/20 13 of 20 ||
 * Abby || 14/20 14 of 20 || 13/20 13 of 20 ||
 * Yahaira || 17/20 17 of 20 || 15/20 15 of 20 ||


 * Conclusion:** My hypothesis was that the majority of the students would have remembered colored words better. Because it would sink in your brain better but as you see in the data chart black words are remembered better so my hypothesis was wrong. My conclusion is that it doesn't matter what color the words are. That the brain could still remember the words color or no color. another reason i think black words were remembered better is because that was usally the second list i showed the students. So there brain like took in that information and kept it absorbed for the second test.Another way i could've done this test was switch the words on the list for they will not memorize them twice.Then give them a little bit more time since i had only the time in class to test the subjects.Because that would've helped my results be way better.