Sex and Short-Term Memory

After exiting, they were asked to adjust the photo to the corresponding position on the wall of the virtual room; the average accuracy of the male was 21.2%, while the average accuracy of the women was 61.1% (Knox et al. 2). These results are the reason why women are good at memorizing car key positions and identifying familiar faces in crowds ("gender gap in memory"). Historically, men have shown more spatial memory than women ("gender difference in memory"; Loftus et al.

Since we have technology, let's talk about two memories: long-term memory and work memory. I may have heard about long-term memory and short-term memory, but cognitive psychologists call short-term memory "working memory." There is a difference in the concept of short-term memory and work memory, but these two are exchangeable for non-experts. Working memory acts as a "scratch pad" for processing information. Work memory is the place where "thinking" is done. Working memory is obtained by acquiring information by sensing it from the outside world or by retrieving it from long-term memory and considering it. Working memory has three important things: it has limited capacity for a limited period, and is very unstable.

Short-term memory is information that people are currently thinking or know. It is also called main memory or active memory. Sensory data such as recent events and sounds are stored in short term memory. Short-term memory usually includes events from anywhere from 30 seconds to several days. Because short-term memory needs to be memorized in less time than long-term memory, the brain's ability to save short-term items is more restricted. According to the Rutgers memory disorder project "memory loss and brain", short term memory can store 5 to 9 items. New information may exclude other items from short term memory. Indeed, there are more capacities in long-term memory, such as personal memories, third-year teacher's name.

Accidentality memory is a temporary form of short-term memory. If you see something visually, it enters your memory for a few seconds and is then discarded or transferred to short term memory. Once you enter short-term memory it may be recalled, discarded or recalled on days, weeks, or months that are transferred to long-term memory. In many cases, when information is transferred from memory to short term memory, it is transferred as information, not the actual picture you can see in your mind. For example, you see your key on the counter and you think you need to find your key later. You remember that they saw them in a short term memory and they saw them on the counter, but you imagine them as clearly as they see them You can not.