Memory Retention
Memory retention is when a person can recall or retain experiences based on the mental process of recognition or retention of information. The experiment analyzed the memory retention of students and teachers in a two minute time frame. It dealt with the number of words that students and teachers could remember from a selected paragraph. In another experiment found, for instance, Richard E. Mayer conducted an experiment using students who are viewing a computer screen that had animations of the process of lightning formation or the operation of a car's braking system. In the experiment students had to describe the major steps in the car’s braking process, or we using matching the words in the lighting formation. The conclusion of the experiment results in those students was that they could relate pictures more easily than the use of words. In most experiments of memory retention the results are that pictures or words can be easily relating to other words have close meaning to the word, people have found that to be helpful in experiments dealing with memory retention. In this experiment, the experimenters tested the notion that if noise level is related to memory retention, then the memory retention will be better in the library. The cafeteria environment is bustling, busy, and loud versus the quiet environment of the library. The independent variables are the environments in which the students are placed. The dependent variable in this experiment is the memory retention of the students. This experiment will prove how much information the brain can retain in different environments of noise.