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2.  The Differing Memories of Men and Women

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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11. 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

12. 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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