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Color - Learning and Memory

            
             Ever wonder how we would function in a room painted all one color? In this study, we focused on the learning and memory capabilities of children in various elementary schools when placed in rooms painted in different color schemes. Our purpose was to determine whether the color on the walls in a classroom affected the learning and memory capabilities of the children. We were also interested to see if a cool color scheme had more of an effect on the child than a warm color scheme. And finally, we were interested to see if gender played a role in the different color schemes. In this study, two similar lesson plans on a single subject will be administered to the children. One lesson plan will be in a classroom with common and normal decorations. Another lesson plan will be taught in a classroom with either all cool color decorations or warm color decorations. If a correlation was found between the color scheme and learning and memory abilities, schools and other learning institutes could use the results and apply them to their facilities. The children would then take a post lesson quiz and also be given a survey about the material they learned and what they thought of the classroom. There have been previous studies with color psychology and how that has an effect on people. By expanding on those previous studies, we can test their data and apply it to our study. .
             Do the colors on walls affect us more than we think?.
             Teachers will often wonder what they can hang in their classrooms or pin to their boards in order for students to get the most out of their lesson plans. What if by simply changing the color of the walls or choosing to go with decorations in a more specific color scheme affected the student more than other decorations? In this study we will examine the effects of color schemes on classroom walls and elementary student's learning and memory abilities. The results will be determined by the mean average of each classroom as well as the difference in grades between males and females.


Essays Related to Color - Learning and Memory

1. Effects on Colored Musical Notes on Learning

Rogers researched how the use of color affected the learning abilities of young children to read and interpret music symbols. ... The use of color-coding had a more positive effect on tests of visual memory as compared to verbal memory (16). ... Roger's findings, that students prefer learning music written in color, makes a lot of sense to me. ... After reading this article by Rogers, I feel that color should be a very important component of the learning process for all ages. As far as my feelings, color only seems to help stimulate the mind, and not hinder the learning process....

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Learning as Biological Brain Change

Memory is an essential element of learning. ... There is no one area of the brain that is solely responsible for memory. Leamnson suggests, that memories are well distributed throughout the structure of the brain. ... One never has to stop learning. ... The color, tone, tune, speed, or the overall message. ...

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3. Psychology Paper - Memory and Daydreams

From the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, an article entitled, "Daydreaming Style Moderates the Relation Between Working Memory and Mind Wandering: Integrating Two Hypotheses" by David Marcussen-Clavertz and Etzel Cardena from Lund University and Devin Blair Terhune from the University of Oxford state their findings in an experiment that researchers the effects of how certain daydreams have an impact on executive processes. ... Sustained Attention to Response Task, or SART, the Automated symmetry span task, or SSPAN, the color-word Stroop test, ...

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  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. Learning Disabilities

Learning Disabilities Introduction Over the past four years, my interest in learning disabilities and finding a new approach to teaching children with learning disabilities has advanced to the forefront of my concentration in education. ... As a mother, I have wanted to do anything and everything in my power to help make learning easier for her. ... With the help of suction, she was freed, but she was a scary color of blue. ... This may result from problems in vocabulary, grammar, hand movement and memory. ... To the right of this title is the memory system and language system. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

5. Life

Everything starts out being born and slowly adapts into its own environment, allowing memories to consume into the minds of people. Even small things in life create the most priceless memory most of the time by picking a season and relating it to a time when you could have become independent for yourself instead of being dependant upon your family. ... Priceless Memory: Leaves are falling and I"m running through my yard without shoes. ... I notice the color is the same brown color as the enormous oak tree it lay beside. ... I realized as I stand here nothings ever really changed only t...

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  • Grade Level: High School

6. The Scholarly Mind of Wolfgang Kohler

This article is about "trace memories as the basis of associations of contrast and contiguity, but mainly similarity" (Dahl, 2005). ... A simple example of this would be a spot of one color surrounded by a different color. ... The surrounding color appears as just a background. ... The spot is usually perceived as being in front of the surrounding color. The surrounding color is thought of as further depth and is behind the spot. ...

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7. Dancing

And it is in color - the only complete scene in color I can recall from those years. ... I experienced more learning and exploration on the playground at age eight than any other time I can recall in my life. ... It seemed to amplify everything... color, sound, and most importantly, touch. ... Perhaps that is why the memory remains o vivid. ... Memories that are looked to often for insight into the present tend to stay with you longer. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

8. To kill a mockingbird (scout)

Although it was mainly told as a memory, she included how she felt then, and how she felt in her later years. ... Instead of wearing dresses and learning how to be lady-like, she wears overalls and learns how to climb trees. ... Scout is very intelligent, learning to read and write before ever going to school. ... One of the most important things that she learns a young age is that not everyone is good, but not everyone is bad; nobody is perfect and the color of your skin has nothing to do with it. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

9. The Intelligence of the Octopus

The light and color variations are noticed only when movement occurs. ... Color changes start at the eyes. ... The change of color and texture is done in a fraction of a second. ... The color of the octopus "reflects mood: white for fear, red for anger, and brown is the usual color." ... Learning improved in subsequent combinations, showing the development of a learning pattern. ...

  • Word Count: 3680
  • Approx Pages: 15
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

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