Does the Flavor of Gum Positively Influence Memory
"We remember what we understand; we understand only what we pay attention to; we pay attention to what we want." - Edward Bolle
Your memory is extremely important, especially for college students. Your memory is your brain’s filing system that holds all of the information you have memorized throughout your lifespan. There is short-term memory that is then stored in a large filing cabinet called your long-term memory. There are ways in which you can improve your memory. The purpose of this study is to determine how others perceive flavor and how it is positively related to memory by completing lab tasks using a Qualtrics survey.
Chewing gum can enhance episodic and working memory conducted in a study done by Wilkinson, L., Scholey, A., and Wesnes, K. (2002), and had also proposed that the act of chewing gum during cognitive tests would improve mental performance. Participants in the free chewing group experienced a significant increase in accuracy on immediate and delayed word recall as well as on spatial and numeric working memory tasks. The effects of gum chewing that were manipulating memory content were done measuring a heart rate response. In common with the earlier experiment, chewing gum is a benefit to having an enhanced episodic long-term memory along with working memory, and the
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If we would have done a recall test as the previous studies have done, we would have had participants come in 24 hours after the initial study to determine if they could recall the previous given words and pictures Having more participants in the study would have drastically changed our results. A placebo effect would be changing the comparison group to include water or flavorless gum, along with our two flavors of gum, comparing flavor versus chewing, also using a cinnamon mints and cinnamon
re One reason kids should be allowed to chew gum at school.Chewing gum helps kids stay more focus at school. For example One study even showed that students who chew gum during a test scored higher than those who did not. Kids should be able to chew gum to pay more attention. “Experts even say that students do better in school because gum makes students more at ease”. Students do better in school with chewing gum because it helps them concentrate. Gum is helping kids think in school and work harder.
74. Raymond remembers, “When I was a sophomore, I took the hardest physics test of my life, and I was happy with my C.” This memory represents a(n)
Memory is a set of cognitive processes that allow us to remember past information (retrospective memory) and future obligations (prospective memory) so we can navigate our lives. The strength of our memory can be influenced by the connections we make through different cognitive faculties as well as by the amount of time we spend devoting to learning specific material across different points in time. New memories are created every time we remember specific event, which results in retrospective memories changing over time. Memory recall can be affected retrospectively such as seeing increased recall in the presence of contextual cues or false recall of information following leading questions. Memory also includes the process
Quote #1 - “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ̶ George Santayana
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” - Confucius
You can’t remember nothing that happens, but you remember ever’ word I say” (103). This may just be my inner theorist speaking, but I find this quote a bit
I am sure we have all seen or heard about taffy. What I would think would come to mind to most people when I would say something regarding taffy might be something concerning saltwater taffy. I love saltwater taffy. It seems that it is not in great supply around here. The only place I know of is somewhere like the cracker barrel. Needless to say I never go to cracker barrel, and it is a little more than I feel comfortable spending on candy. So I find myself resorting to a childhood favorite, laffy taffy. It is sold everywhere, and it is very inexpensive. I really started to like it when I played baseball as a kid. After the game I would always try to pump mom or dad for a few cents to stock up. It never made it home. I would somehow eat my entire entire stockpile. Whoever came up with the idea of putting jokes inside the wrapper is a very rich man. I could not help but to try to unwrap one more. The way the jokes where printed on the wrapper was very smart too. They would put one joke half way on the wrapper so it made me want to know the end of the joke, genius really.
In my experiment I will find out if chewing gum helps you concentrate. I have recorded my results in the following report. You may be shocked about what the results may say. I hope that my report gets you wondering what will happen in the long run.
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” (Confucius) this quote
One reason gum should be allowed in schools is because it boosts education. Chewing gum in class can allow students to be more focused and concentrated. Therefore, gum can help students pay attention in class so that they would do better in school. If gum can help with the education of the students, why aren’t they using it to their advantage? Chewing bubble gum during tests and quizzes can help the students have higher scores than kids who don’t. This proves that chewing gum during
Studies show that gum chewing can help you stay focused for longer on tasks that require continuous monitoring. Kate Morgan a publisher of “The British Journal of Psychology” Published an article that explained how the tested this theory. They put 38 participants in a room to do an audio task. The participants were split into two groups. Those who chewed gum while doing the task scored higher than the
Paradoxically, the gum you chew while studying then chew the same gum while a test, it will improve your memory. It will help you focus more by help with reaction timing. It gives you a great mental boost for being focused. It gives help on longer tasks that require continuous monitoring. And gum can improve concentration in visual memory tasks.
“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”
"What I hear, I forget; what I see, I remember; what I do, I understand."
Memory is defined as "the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information." Our memory can be compared to a computer's information processing system. To remember an event we need to get information into our brain which is encoding, store the information and then be able to retrieve it. The three-stage processing model of Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin suggests that we record information that we want to remember first as a fleeting sensory memory and then it is processed into a short term memory bin where we encode it ( pay attention to encode important or novel stimuli) for long-term memory and later retrieval. The premise for the three step process is that we are unable to focus on too much