Which gender can memorize numbers, alphabets, and colours better?
Introduction
Memorization is one of the important skills to have through our lives. In our daily lives, we may have to memorize small numbers to big numbers, from a word to the sentences, and even some images or pictures. In this science fair I am going to do a small experiment about relationship between gender and memorization. I am going to use three materials which are numbers, alphabets, and colours for this experiment to be more specific about the result.
Types of Memory
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There are divided our memory to three different types (picture 1), long-term memory, short-term memory, and sensory memory. A long-term memory is anything you remember that happened more than a few minutes ago. It can last for few days to many years. Short-term memory is for storing information temporarily. It determines if it will be dismissed or transferred on to long-term memory. Lastly sensory memory is the shortest term element memory. Example of sensory memory is looking at something and remembers what it looked like just by a second.
Memorization is one of the important skills to have through our lives. In our daily lives, we may have to memorize small numbers to big numbers, from a word to the sentences, and even some images or pictures. In this science fair I am going to do a small experiment about relationship between gender and memorization. I am going to use three materials which are numbers, alphabets, and colours for this experiment to be more specific about the result.
Types of Memory
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There are divided our memory to three different types (picture 1), long-term memory, short-term memory, and sensory memory. A long-term memory is anything you remember that happened more than a few minutes ago. It can last for few days to many years. Short-term memory is for storing information temporarily. It determines if it will be dismissed or transferred on to long-term memory. Lastly sensory memory is the shortest term element memory. Example of sensory memory is looking at something and remembers what it looked like just by a second.
Short term memory/ Working memory
Working memory and short term memory are similar. Working memory emphasizes the brain using information, storing information, and so on, while short-term memory is a more passive concept. Working memory keeps information like a number, name, or whatever else for just long enough to use. This is the type of memory that the people that I’m testing going to use for a part of my experiment (Number). This information will quickly disappear forever unless we make a conscious effort to keep it. The short-term memory has a limited capacity, which can be readily illustrated by the simple method of trying to remember a list of random items.
Our ability to memorize information decreases as we grow older. Age makes us more likely to have trouble with basic tasks, like remembering what to press in a bank’s phone menu. It makes us to forget the details of events that we had recently.
Long term memory
In fact long term memory decay very little over time, and we can store an unlimited amount of information almost indefinitely. Short term memory can become a long term memory through the process of consolidation. Unlike short-term memory, long-term memory encodes information based on meaning and association. However, long term memory does also encode some extent by sound.
Gender and Memorization
Various experiments have been proved a variety of theories to determine which gender has 'better short-term memory'. Some studies on how does gender affect short term memory seem to indicate that women have slightly better than men in using short term memory to recall facts and words. Women often score higher than men on verbal tests so that they might have better word and fact memory on average. On the other hand, men seemed to be better at spatial and function memory tasks then women. So the part of the answer to memory differences depends on what is it that the person is asked to remember.
Conclusion
I am inferring that in my small experiment that I am doing for my science fair, male is going to be better at memorizing the numbers and female is going to be better at memorising alphabets. I think colours are going to be depending on the people that I am testing. If they are interested in colours, and visual art than they will score higher on its section. I thought so because according to my research, women are slightly better than men on word and fact memorization and males are somewhat better at spatial and function memory. I think there might be some exceptions because I am talking about the average people. Males that I have test might have more interests in words and facts, while the females that I have test might have more interest in spatial and functional tasks.
Bibliography:(unknown) “Types of Memory”, http://www.positscience.com/brain-resources/memory/types-of-memory , April 13, 2014
(unknown) “Short term memory”, http://www.human-memory.net/types.html, April 13, 2014
(unknown) “Long term memory”, http://www.human-memory.net/types_long.html April 14, 2014
BY.Cindy Hong