![]() | Project title | Effect of anxiety on short term memory
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Difficulty Level | Elementary school | |
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Description | ||
This science fair project was performed to find out how the memory of boys and girls can be affected by anxiety. The experiment was done by performing a memory test on students under normal conditions in a class, as compared to performing the test on a stage during the school assembly. | ||
Instructions preview | ||
1. For this science fair project, the independent variable is the gender of the participants and their anxiety levels (calm or stressed). The dependent variable is the ability of the male and female participants to remember the objects that they saw. This is determined by asking them to write down or recite from memory a list of the objects they had seen previously. The constants (control variables) are the number of objects, the time given to look at the objects and the time given to write down or say the list of objects. 2. Separate the objects into 2 ..... |