Tests to do on the brain/ how it works?!


Question: Tests to do on the brain/ how it works?
I have a school project to do.. we have to do a thing on how the brain works by conducting an experiment on the brain such as peoples reaction time (by age, gender, distractions) or something with peoples' memory (something to do with colors, sound, smell, pictures versus words, etc.) and how different peoples memories are according to : age, gender.... is there any ideas on what kind of test/experiment i could do??
i just need a bunch of ideas if anyone has some!
thanx!!!

Answers:

Hey :)

I took part in a research study recently where my memory and reaction time were tested. Some of them were:

The administrator read a list of words aloud to me. They were in groups of four, with a couple of seconds between each section. I was then asked to repeat as many of the words as I could remember, and order didn’t matter. There were some similarities in the types of words said. Each block of four had a gemstone, an animal, a miscellaneous word, and a place. The administrator (Andrea) read the list to me three times. After each time, I was asked to repeat all of the words.

Andrea would say a combination of words and numbers to me. I would then repeat them back to her in this format: numbers first in numerical order then letters in alphabetical order. She started out with easy ones such as ‘4 F 3 D’ which would be ‘3,4 DF’.


I was shown a sheet of paper for ten seconds. On the paper were 6 symbols. I was supposed to memorize the symbols as best I could and then draw them myself. I had three attempts to look and then draw the symbols.

Sorry for the format of my suggestions--I wrote up a summary for my AP psych class...
If you need any more help, you can email me (I also have some explanation as to what each test was testing for).




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