demostartion 2 sleeping words

In this experiment we were to remember words instead of numbers. The teacher instructed us to remember a list of words and we were to write down what words we remembered. We conducted a graph using the result of the class and the result demonstrated the “serial position effect”. Most of the people in the class tend to remember the beginning and the end of the list best. This is because in the beginning they are alert and at the end they have some short term memory to keep those memories. The average number of words that the average of the class could remember is around 7, which somehow relates to short term memory in demo 1. The result of the graph demonstrated the fact that we could construct our own memory. Some of the classmates created their own memories on the word “sleep” because it is associated with all other words (snore, night, silent, clock, bed, etc). This demonstration also show us the effect of rehearsal, we tend to remember the words that was repeated many times. Lastly most of the classmates remembered Pineapple because the word is so unique in the listed words.