Short Term Memory: Girls vs. Boys

Overview

Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine what types of short term memory, boys and girls ould remember, and how much they would remember in total. Methods/Materials I used groups of between 10 and 15 students to test my theories, small pieces of paper with 10 pictures and written words on them for the students to memorize, and I also read Dr. Suess aloud to the classes I tested. ` Results I averaged the scores for boys and girls for each test. I found that girls remembered an average of seven pictures, seven and one half writen words, and seven words spoken aloud. I also found that he boys rmembered an average of six picures, six written words, and six spoken words. Conclusions/Discussion I found that in my small samples the girls remembered more than the boys on all the tests. This however does no mean that my tests were accurate: my sample size was fairlysmalland the differences between the number of words remembered were also fairly small. To determine whether the differences would be accurate in the real world i used a T-test to find the perchance that the results were significant. i found that only the written word test would have been statistically certain that the girls would do better, and although the others were very unlikely that the boys would do better I could not be certain.

Competition history

• CSEF 2006 Behavioral Sciences · Entry S0318

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