The affect of color on memory retention
aRE NUMBERS MEMORIZED BETTER WRITTEN IN COLOR OR BLACK AND WHITE?
because colored patterns and images catch
attention more and they would be more
likely to be remembered rather than an
image or pattern that is in black and white.
Background information:
Memory is one of the brains core processes and has to do
with how the brain remembers and stores information.
some psychologists have even found that colored photos
enhance a persons ability to remember details that are in a
photo better than if it was just in black and white. memory
very important because it helps you to remember important
thing like how to get places and how to do different things.
qUESTION:
Materials:
1. two index cards
2. a black pen or marker
3. different colored pens or markers
4. a timer or clock
5. somewhere to record your results
by: natalie hufnagel
and natalia sudol
procedure:
- get a plain white note card.
- on one of the note cards write, with a black
pen, a row of ten numbers.
- on the second note card write a row of ten
numbers with different colors.
- test people by giving them one of the tests
them study it for twenty seconds. then have
them write it on a separate sheet of paper. do
that for both of the tests.
-record the results.
Hypothesis:
We think that color can help people remember information better