Caffeine And Long Term Memory Essay
Psychology Report
The effect of caffeine on long-term memory
Introduction:
What is caffeine? Caffeine is one of the commonly consumed or most ingested stimulant or psychoactive substance in the world, known for it’s effect on vigilance and alertness level (A. Smith, 2002) or at least perceived to jolt our tired brains, when consumed in normal or moderate quantity. Caffeine is available to us from various sources like coffee, tea, cocoa, soft drinks and other such products. Caffeine is basically 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine (T. Brunye, 2010) and like any other stimulant tends to wear off easily. The body also tends to adapt to regular dosage of caffeine and so a higher dosage might be required to achieve the required effect. It takes about …show more content…
So the term long term consolidation and discrimination wasn't used in a very clear way and could be interpreted differently by different people. Internal Validity:
The relation between the conclusion and the experimental values are pretty strong and hence internal validity holds true. Results from the picture discrimination task. (M.A.Yassa, 2014)
Independent Variables:
Identification of targets, foils and lures and classifying them as old, new and similar, in two groups, one the control group who where given placebo, and the other group under the influence of caffeine.
Dependent variable:
The dependent variable in this case is the response received from both the groups. They could have also recorded the deliberation time to give an in depth understanding on the level of attentiveness, but it isn’t really required for this experiment as we are concentrating more on the memory and consolidation factor.
Part 2: Another part of this experiment studied the effect of different dosage on
The effect of caffeine on long-term memory
Introduction:
What is caffeine? Caffeine is one of the commonly consumed or most ingested stimulant or psychoactive substance in the world, known for it’s effect on vigilance and alertness level (A. Smith, 2002) or at least perceived to jolt our tired brains, when consumed in normal or moderate quantity. Caffeine is available to us from various sources like coffee, tea, cocoa, soft drinks and other such products. Caffeine is basically 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine (T. Brunye, 2010) and like any other stimulant tends to wear off easily. The body also tends to adapt to regular dosage of caffeine and so a higher dosage might be required to achieve the required effect. It takes about …show more content…
So the term long term consolidation and discrimination wasn't used in a very clear way and could be interpreted differently by different people. Internal Validity:
The relation between the conclusion and the experimental values are pretty strong and hence internal validity holds true. Results from the picture discrimination task. (M.A.Yassa, 2014)
Independent Variables:
Identification of targets, foils and lures and classifying them as old, new and similar, in two groups, one the control group who where given placebo, and the other group under the influence of caffeine.
Dependent variable:
The dependent variable in this case is the response received from both the groups. They could have also recorded the deliberation time to give an in depth understanding on the level of attentiveness, but it isn’t really required for this experiment as we are concentrating more on the memory and consolidation factor.
Part 2: Another part of this experiment studied the effect of different dosage on