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- My name is Daisy and
I'm in my final year
at Bournemouth University,
studying psychology.
This year I'm writing my dissertation.
I'd like to research more into memory,
so I'm hoping to find a project supervisor
who can help me with that.
We just had a lecture about projects
that are available for our
third year dissertation.
And now I'm going to go meet
with a potential supervisor.
- Okay Daisy, so I have a few
projects that are available.
Some are particularly
interested in order memory
and whether our memory
works in a similar way
for different types of stimuli.
- [Daisy] I've been able to
pair up with Dr. Andrew Johnson
to work on a project that
links into tapped memory.
I've completed my ethics application
for the research project.
So today I'm sending it off
in advance of the testing.
Soon as I can get the clearance,
I need to start testing participants.
My study is looking at
woman's sequence repetition,
for tactile stimuli.
I recruited first and second
year psychology students
for the research by an online portal.
The students log on to the portal
and they pick which
project they would like
to participate in.
Today I'm testing some
participants in the lab.
I will use the same instructions
for each participant
so that I don't bias the test.
In this experiment you will
receive a number of trials.
In each trials there will
be six taps to your fingers.
In that test I would like you to move your
fingers in the order of presentation.
To comply with BPS ethical guidelines,
I gave a debrief to each
participant at the end of testing.
This experiment was looking at
women's sequence repetitions
for tactile stimuli.
I'm looking for whether a
response inhibition occurs
for tactile memory.
I will test 40 participants
for my project.
I've completed both my experiments now
and I'm just gonna go
speak to my supervisor
about the results.
I think I need a test that is gonna tell
the difference between, the
positions on the right spectrum
and the control chart,
in order to see if there
was a weaker performance
on the repeated item.
- So you mean sort of showing
the drop down position here,
at position five on this?
- [Daisy] Yeah.
- [Supervisor] Okay, that sounds sensible.
- I'm here on the final
part for my degree,
and this is where we present
our dissertation on a poster.
To the rest of the year
All the students presented
their own poster,
their own projects, so it
gave me the chance to see,
what my peers were researching,
and also to talk in detail with lecturers
who didn't know anything about my project
and explain to them what it did.
So I've finally finished my dissertation
and I've just had it printed and bound
and now I'm gonna go submit it.
I'm going to the 6th
international conference
in Budapest to show my research
to other psychologists.
I've never been to Budapest before,
so it's real exciting to
be here for the first time.
The conference is a great
place to meet other researchers
in memory, and to learn about
the recent international
research in this area.
I'm here at the conference venue
and later today I'm going to be
presenting my dissertation as a poster.
I'm really glad it's submitted,
but also a bit sad that it's over,
because I enjoyed
carrying out the research
and writing up the report.
I'm really looking forward
to getting my mark back
and I'm already thinking about
the next research project
I want to do.
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