Memory Experiment

Seth Dennison and Jenna Snyder John Bryan Psychology of Gender 104 10/31/2012 Psychological Gender Experiment For our psychological gender taste we chose to focus on the covertic of memory differences between genders. At root we wanted to figure out if peerless gender had a purify memory than the other, but then we also wanted to observe whether or not their memory showed better results when the objects were associate to their gender.Therefore, the scheme we constructed was If we group unneurotic gender related items, then that specific gender will goldbrick those items more than the other items, furthermore we predict that distaffs will have a better memory than phallics. The design of our taste consisted of randomly selecting participants from the ages of 18 and everywhere who were hanging out at a sit down world next to Chipotle and Starbucks in Menifee.The experimental group was split into two split the male items and the female items, maculation the control group had non-specific gender items. For the experiment we used a tray to place the items on, 15 non-specific gender items, 5 female related items and 5 male related items, as well as a towel to c everywhere the items and pens and paper for the participants to write their results on. The way we designate groups was by rotating the items after every two participants in the case of a group of 2 or more people we would switch the items ripe(p) after.The participants did not know that we would switch the items around and they were not aware that we had a bag full of different items. When we approached the participants we would ask them if they would take part in our project, then we explained the procedure of the memory test and if they said yes we would escort them over to our table where they would write down their gender and age at the top of their paper and wait to start. in one case the participants stated that they were ready, Seth started the timer while Jenna lifted the towel to di splay the items.We allowed the participants to have 45 seconds to memorize as many items as possible and once the time was up Jenna cover up the items while Seth started the 1 minute timer followed by the both of us watching the participants to make sure no one was cheating. During the one minute, the participants had to write down as many of the items that they mobilizeed as possible. Once they were done we allowed them to view the items one more time so that they could go steady which items they remembered and which ones they forgot.After gathering the data from 24 participants we had 13 female participants and 11 male participants. In comparison of the experimental groups it was generally more common for charr to have the better memory. From the results gathered from the participants females on average would remember 11. 6, or 77%, of the items. On the other hand males on average would remember 11 of the items, or 73%. When it came to gender specific items females held an aver age of 3. 4 out of 5 items for feminine items, or 68%, which is 9% write down then their overall average score.Males held an average of 2. 1/5 items for male items or 42%, which is 31% lower then their overall average. though it is something to consider that the condom was almost always an item remembered among males. From the results we gathered our hypothesis was only half correct. Woman do have the better memory, even though it is a small margin. However it seems it does not matter if the items were related to the specific gender as the percentage of the time that those were specifically remembered were genuinely lower then each genders overall score.