The Effect of Visual Stimulus Characteristics on Adolescents’ Short-Term Memory

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10.2991/assehr.k.210617.072How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Short-term memory, teenagers, visual stimulus, learning, recognition

Abstract

In the past, many studies suggested the importance of short-term memory and memory associated with age, but not many researches have specifically targeted to the short-term memory related to teenagers. Therefore, this research will focus on testing whether the use of visual stimulus in learning process can have a positive impact on short-term memory for adolescents. There are19 participants involved in the experiment (9 males), aging from 15-18. The experiment is a laboratory experiment, which used repeated measure design. The independent variable (IV) in this experiment is the colour of the visual stimulus used, and the IV consists 3 experimental conditions, including words with solid colour, coloured picture, and black and white picture. The results obtained show that coloured picture has the highest correction rate, whilst black and white condition has smallest mean respond time and standard deviation. To some extent, this paper reveals the influence of colour characteristics of visual stimuli on short-term memory. Further studies could be made based on the importance of visual stimulus, especially colour and images.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yixuan Jin
AU  - Yingying Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/20
TI  - The Effect of Visual Stimulus Characteristics on Adolescents’ Short-Term Memory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Humanities Education (ICMHHE 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 243
EP  - 246
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210617.072
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210617.072
ID  - Jin2021
ER  -