Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

A SURVEY ON THE STATUS OF SHORT TERM MEMORY IN MEDICAL STUDENTS

Dr. P. Neelima, Dr. R. Ravi Sunder

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A survey was conducted among the medical students to check the short term memory using the alphabetical test. After obtaining an informed consent, 185 students (94 girls & 91 boys) participated in the study. They were explained in detail about the testing procedure. They were asked to write down the alphabets they remember at the end of each trial after the letters disappear. The test had six trials with increasing number of alphabets by 2. The first two questions were answered correctly by all the students except one. More number of mistakes was committed for trials 5& 6, in particular for trail 6 which had 12 alphabets. When the range of less than ten mistakes was considered, the values were 69.23% boys and 59.57% girls. Boys performed well when compared to girls. 21.27% girls committed mistakes ranging from16–19 but only 9.89% boys were incorrect for this range. Among 185 students, all alphabets of the last trail were marked correct by only a boy and a girl. The results were illustrated graphically. The test depicts the maximum number of alphabets which a student can hold in his/ her short term memory. This study can be further enhanced by performing on a larger group.  

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Dr.P.Neelima, Dr.R.Ravi Sunder, A SURVEY ON THE STATUS OF SHORT TERM MEMORY IN MEDICAL STUDENTS, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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