Long Term Memory

A Comparative Study of Long-term and Short-term Memory between Athletes and Non-Athletes

ABSTRACT
Physical exercise has demonstrated to considerably affect stimuli in the brain to increase an individual’s memory. Athletes will have better long-term and short-term memory compared to those who are not athletes. The intent of this study was to evaluate and compare the long-term and short-term memory of athlete and non-athlete. Twenty participants were tested, ten of which were athletes and ten non-athletes. All of the participants were seniors at Mount Pleasant High School, ranging from the age 17-19. Only short-term and long-term memory was tested in this experiment. Standard picture questionnaires
In their study, they used one hundred college boys, 50 that were athletically involved and 50 that were non-athletes whose age ranged from 22 to 25. Only long-term and short-term memory was measured, and two standard questionnaires were given to the subjects. The first questionnaire measured short-term memory, the other measured long-term memory. L.T.M. scale finds out the effect of rehearsal of paired- associates on the long-term memory of the subject when tested after two minutes of interpolated task. Higher percentage of recall indicates better performance and lower percentage indicates poor performance (Saha, Halder & Das, 2013). Short-term memory scale studies the effect of different time intervals and association values on short-term recall. Higher percentage of recall indicates better performance and lower percentage indicates poor performance (Saha, Halder & Das, 2013). Their results showed that athletes performed better in both tests. The difference between the athlete results and non-athlete statistics were significant. The researcher’s hypothesis follows the data shown in Saha, Halder and Das’ comparative