PENGARUH TAYANGAN HUMOR TERHADAP SHORT-TERM MEMORY

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of humorous impressions on short-term memory. The humor method can improve a person's ability to remember information in the short-term or short-term memory. Laughter will increase the hormone dopamine and reduce stress hormones, this will in turn improve memory abilities. This research uses an Experimental method, by comparing short-term memory before and after watching humorous impressions using a test tool in the form of the Digit Span Test. The research was conducted on 7 female participants from the Batam University Psychology Study Program using a sampling method in the form of Simple Random-Sampling. The results of this study stated that humorous impressions had little effect on short-term memory abilities with posttest results tending to decrease compared to pretest.