Report.

Abstract

The aim of my experiment was to see if biology or chemistry students had better memory when it
came to remembering the random sequence of playing cards. My experiment is a quasi-experiment.
The main finding of the research was that overall chemistry students have the better memory
however this did not match with the hypothesis I made at the start as I thought there would be no
significant difference between biology and chemistry students.

Method.

I gathered 5 students for each class ensuring that they only did biology or chemistry and did not
include any students who did both, I got each person to sign the consent form then I brought them
each into a room separately and gave them 5 minutes to look at a deck of randomly shuffled deck of
52 playing cards, the deck was the same order for each person. After the time was up, they had to
wait 2 minutes then they had maximum of 5 minutes to recite all the cards they could remember
and when they got the order wrong and didn’t correct themselves, I stopped them. I repeated this
for the 9 other participants. After they were all done, I debriefed them all and told them the reason
behind the experiment. There were 6 males and 4 females.

Results.

The graph and table show that overall chemistry students got better results that biology students,

(I can’t remember how to carry out a Mann Whitney)

INSERT BAR GRAPH AND TABLE HERE

Discussion.

My findings show there was a significant difference between the memory of biology and chemistry
students. A theoretical implication of my experiments was that I deceived my participants at first
although I did debrief them at the end. I had only males in the chemistry group, so it wasn’t fully
representative of my target population. There aren’t really any implications of the findings of my
study on real life.