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The Differing Memories of Men
and Women
Abstract
Our experiment tested whether women tend to remember smaller, detailed objects and if men tend to remember larger, simpler objects
Subjects looked at an “I SPY” picture for 1 minute, recalled 10 objects from memory
Data was mixed and inconclusive
Introduction
Women more likely to remember/recall speech filled memories than men (Ely, 2008)
Women outperformed men in remembering locations and details of objects (University of Warwick, 2007)
Men better at abstract tasks, such as reading a map (University of Warwick, 2007)
Men have “selective memories” while women tend to remember most everything
Hypothesis
If women and men were shown a picture of a mixture of simple and detailed objects, then women would remember the more detailed objects while men would remember the simpler objects.
Results will show when women and men’s memory does differ by the objects recalled from memory after looking at the picture
Procedure
10 males and 10 females selected to look at an “I SPY” picture
Each subject looked for 1 minute
After 1 minute, subject recalled from memory 10 objects from the picture
Data was collected and compared
“I SPY” Picture
Discussion
Our data was very mixed and did not turn out as specific as we hypothesized
Both men and women tended to remember smaller, detailed objects and larger, simpler objects
Data was inconclusive and was not able to prove our hypothesis
Errors
The “I SPY” picture was very “busy” and full, making it very distracting and could have changed the data
Next time use more pictures with less objects on them (less distracting for participants)
Also, ask subjects to describe what they saw instead of recall 10 objects
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