Gender Differences Between Gender And Short Term Memory

Short-term memory is a broad topic that has been studied by many psychologists for many years to discover the factors of cognitive. Many past studies have concluded that short term memory is very limited and can only hold up to just a few seconds of information. In order to retain information for a longer period of time, many techniques such as repeating information, can possibly be converted into long term memory. The purpose of this study is to determine which gender can score higher on a short term memory assessment when placed under a time constraint. As for this experiment, an inspiration from George A. Miller will be used to conduct this research. Miller was a founder of cognitive psychology who discovered that people are able to memorize seven numbers plus or minus two digits. He called this “The Magical Number 7, plus or minus 2”, in which he believed it is the amount of capacity people are able to recall when using their short term memory.
Furthermore, a conclusion on whether males or females have better short term memory will be determined upon the results of this experiment. It is hypothesized, that females have better short term memory then males. This research will explore the differences on how much males versus females can memorize using a digit span assessment. A digit span assessment is a test …show more content…
The concept of short term memory is known for items that are remembered for a short period of time. When trying to recall information, it has been said that women were capable of memorizing more information than men when it came to family relationships. Researchers have sought to determine if women have an advantage for recall of communication with others (Horgan, Stein, Southworth, and Swarbrick, 2012). In which this case, it has resulted that women were able to retain more information regarding family then men since women, since family had more meaning to