An experiment investigating the effect of background music on students ability to recall a list of words

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An experiment investigating the effect of background music on students' ability to recall a list of words

Name: Kayla

Candidate No.: 0003562026

Type of Study: Experiment

Subject and Level: Psychology Standard Level

Date of submission: June 1, 2011

Word Count: 1, 498 words

Table of Contents

Abstract 3

Introduction 4

Method 6

Design 6

Participants 7

Materials 7

Procedure 8

Results 8

Discussion 10

References 12

Appendices 13

Appendix i 13

Appendix ii 14

Appendix iii 15

Appendix iv 17

Abstract

This experiment aims at investigate the effect of background music has on students' ability to recall words from a list, based on St Clair's (2000) and Thompson & Tulving's (1970) research. The music selected was One Republics "Come Home" as it fits the genre of easy listening, nonpercussive in beat. The measured variable of this experiment being the number of correctly recalled words. Using opportunity sampling, all participants were aged between 14 to 18 years of age and are currently attending a Queensland Academy. Two groups of 10 participants were used in this