Josephine believes that there is a difference between visual and aural memory - She uses two tests to investigate her claim.

GCSE Drama

Mustafa Rafik

Maths coursework- Memory

Josephine believes that there is a difference between visual and aural memory. She uses two tests to investigate her claim.

Test 1: Visual memory

Josephine gives these 10 pictures cards to Peter.

Peter has 10 seconds to look at them.

He is asked to recall as many pictures as he can.

His result is recorded.

Josephine repeats the test with other people.

Test 2: Aural memory

Josephine reads out the following 10 words to Peter.

Peter is then asked to recall as many as words as he can.

His result is then recorded.

Josephine repeats the test with other people.

Introduction

We are given a theory, which suggests that there is a difference between visual and aural test. We have to prove that Josephine’s theory works, so to do this I am going to ask 20 different people to do the two tests above. I will then try and work out if her theory works by looking at the results that I have obtained by recording the results in a suitable form or way.

Aim

I have been asked to prove if Josephine's theory works. After asking 20 people I will then try and put my results in a graph or a suitable form in which I can check whether Josephine's theory does work or not. I will then further this investigation by finding out various information such as mode, median, range and mode. I will then try and find out other aspects relating to this investigation such as, whether boys have a better aural or visual test than girls.

Method

I will do two tests as I have mentioned before and the two tests that I will do are-:

Test 1

The first test that I will do is the visual test. In this test I would ask 20 different people to look at the ten pictures for ten seconds trying to remember as much as they can, I will then tell them to recall as many pictures as they can remember and then record it down.

Test 2

The second test that I will do is the aural test. In this test I will tell the same twenty people to listen to me reading the 10 words, trying to remember as much words as they can. I will then tell them to recall the words and record the information.

I will then try and see if there is a difference between the aural and visual test by looking at the results of the twenty people i have asked. I will then try and do further investigations (extension) by looking at the gender on whether males have a better aural test than females or whether it is the other way round. After I have obtained the information, I will then try and put it into graph form to show my results more clearly.

Prediction

I predict that the visual test will produce better positive results, as it is easier to remember things while looking at them rather than hearing them from somebody else and then trying to remember them.