Do Mnemonics Effect Your Memory?

In this report we will be discussing our experiment and

its results. The purpose of this experiment is to find if
mnemonics effect your memory. Mnemonics are devices
such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assist
in remembering something. This project appealed to us
because we believed that perhaps the funny sentences our
teachers gave us might actually help our memorization.
We believed that Group A, the group without the
mnemonic, would have lower results than Group B, the group
with the mnemonic.
We created a list of random words (apple, hat, dog,
soup, whale, art, butterfly, octopus, rhino) and created a
short mnemonic that corresponded with the first letter of
each word in the list of words (A happy day starts with a
bowl of ramen). Group A (3 people) only got the list of words
while Group B (3 people) got both the words and the
mnemonic. We gave them 5 minutes to study their words.
After that we let both groups play videogames and read
books for 15 minutes. Then we tested each individual subject
to see how long it would take to recall the words and how
much correct words they recall.