Glucose Memory Abilities

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Introduction
With the increasing rigor and demands of making the most of a college experience, many college students tend to not prioritize their eating schedule and habits as much (Spicer, 2012; Wong, 2013). Included in these demands is the expectation from students to have good memory retention from their lectures and memory recall especially for the time of their exams, which are both cognitive demanding tasks. With the student being hungry as they attend lectures, they involve themselves in cognitive demanding tasks under the circumstances of low glucose levels. Being hungry by itself, resulting to a decrease in glucose concentration, already causes metabolic stress to the body and the brain (Michaud, Musse, Nicolas, & Mejean, 1991, p. …show more content…

Therefore, we focused on the effect of glucose levels on college students at the time of acquiring the material and at the time of being tested on it. All college student participants were asked to not eat or drink anything but water two hours prior to the study, were taught an introductory lecture in biology, and were tested on their understanding of the key concepts four weeks later. The dependent variables were their glucose ingestion and the times of ingestion. If the glucose levels positively affect memory retention and memory recall, administering glucose intake both at the time of lecture and at the time of exam must yield optimum results. The selected lecture was based on the general duration in most of the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) undergraduate lecture classes, and the timing of the test was based on the approximate midterm of a quarter …show more content…

The third party will take note of the beverage's number associated to the participant. Again, following previous research, ten minutes will be allowed to pass before the test is started (Job et al., 2013, p. 14841). They will be asked to answer ten questions measuring their understanding of the key concepts (e.g. what are the different types of molecular bonds and forces?) of the material (Szpunar et al., 2013, p. 6314). This test will be administered on a computer for standardization (Job et al., 2013, p. 14841).
The analysis of data would involve looking into the main effects of the glucose administration schedule and of the test scores, as an indication of performance, and then their

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