Eyes or Ears

1. Eyes or Ears By: Sydney Brochu, Quinn Beek and Henry Thompson

2. Do Eyes or Ears have it? All five senses turn into memory. For some people visual memory is better then auditory memory. • Or the other way around, Both are very important. • If you couldn’t remember what people look like, you couldn’t be able to remember your friends, family, pets and places. • Then if you couldn’t remember what you heard you couldn’t remember rules, what your teacher says and instructs you to do.

3. We think • We believe that visual is better because if don’t remember what your family or friends looks like, where you live. • Life would be confusing

4. What you Need To do this experiment you will need: Computer with Internet Index Cards Timer Clipboard to hold Data Table

5. Procedure • In this experiment you will need number sequences for people to remember, numbers 0-9 and seven digits long. 2. Write one number sequence on each index card until you have a deck of 50.

6. next 3. You will also need a data table for your experiment. You should have a place to record the correct numbers 4. To test someone's visual memory show them a card for 30 seconds and time it with a timer, have the person say the alphabet then have them repeat the word.

7. Then 5. To test someone's auto memory read them the sequence if the numbers. Then have them say the alphabet then repeat the numbers. 6. You will need to have a lot of people for this study, so gather as much information as possible. When you are done count up the data.

8. Last but not least 7. Counculate the percentage of people who received each score. To do this you must first add up the number of people in each column, then divide the number of people receiving the score by the total number of precipitants in your study. Then finally multiply this by 100.

9. Data Table