International Journal of Education and Psychological Research

(Print and Online Peer Reviewed Journal)


Print - ISSN: 2349 - 0853
e - ISSN: 2279 - 0179

VOLUME 3 - ISSUE 3

(September 2014)

The Effect of Transportation Noise on Retrieval of Information from Short Term Memory


Authors: Vikas S.Kamble

Pages: 1-3

Abstract:

Transportation noise is a prominentcauseof interrupting the attention of students. Exposure to transportation noise can impair students’ability to retrieve the information from short term memory.Therefore, study aimed at to find out the effect of exposure to transportation noise on short term memory of students. Noise resulted from road traffic is measured by Sound Level Meter (SLM) and created three different conditions according to dB units. A sample of 120 school students aged 13 to 16 years participated in a field experiment study. The short term memory of participated studentsis measured through recall of trigram experiment based on Brown Peterson and Peterson technique.It was hypothesized that differentoutcomes of capacities of short term memory will be yielded into three conditions of transportation noise.Analysis of variance and Bonferroni’s post hoc multiple comparison using revealed supportive results for research hypothesis. The capacity of STM was varied with three conditions of noise. Findings indicate that a constanttransportation noise severely impair the capacity of short term memory of school students. Schools located in high level of transportation noise zone are not beneficial educational environments.