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Student Name: Vicky

GAC013: SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES

Assessment Event 1: Scientific Investigation and Report

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Write a 750-word academic report

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GAC013 Assessment Event 1: Academic Research Essay

Do males and females have

different abilities when making

and remembering

observations?
Student Name: Vicky

Student ID: 1

Teacher: Katie Aston

Due Date: 2021/09/27

Word Count: 1424

Table of Contents

Abstract……………………………………………………………..

1. Introduction……………………………………………………
2. Research

Methodology………………………………………………………

3. Research Results……………………………………………..

4. Discussion…………………………………………………..

5. Conclusions and Recommendations ………………………………..

Appendices………………………………………………………………….

Reference List……………………………………………………
Abstract

The purpose of this experiment is to figure out that whether there are some differences

between females and males when they remember observations. My hypothesis of the

experiment is that females are better in overall memory ability. I start with an experiment that

I listed some pictures, and the subjects may have the 30s to observe the pictures, and then,

they need to accomplish a questionnaire which is related to the detail in the pictures. The

result shows that the average score from females are about 73.4%, and males get 73.6% in

average, which means that actually the memorial ability between females and males is nearly

equal. For experiment next, in my opinion, we can study about whether females and males

may have different abilities when they try to remember different kinds of objects. The reason

why I recommend that as the experiment we can do next is that what we're doing right now is

a partial study of memory between men and women, so we can go on to search for the

particular differences between males and females.

Introduction

The goal of the experiment was to find out if there were any differences between women and

men when recalling observations. I wanted to see if gender could affect how well a person

remembers the information they see. To identify the result, I set a hypothesis that ‘females are

better in overall memory abilities’, because in my own experience, my mom always shows

better remembering ability than my father. She can remember the location of everything in
our home. Also, according to a psychological science study, "The role of gaze position in

Saccade Detection of scene changes," proved to be a valuable source of previous experiments

on information related to memory. In their experiments, subjects were exposed to a color

image of a trusted space, such as a living room, dining room, etc., and items in the image

were deleted or rotated during the scan (Henderson & Hollingworth, 1999). Even if the

participants were asked to remember the scene and all the details, but the test subjects still

didn't want to notice the changes. Experiments with three factors affect the ability to detect

changes in participants: when looking at regional and change the distance between the

reduced hours, identification accuracy increases, sometimes ignore the initial changes, only

when the change to return to the original direction of the region to identify, and when the

scanning direction of the viewer with the deleted items in the same direction, the recognition

has deleted the accuracy of the project be deleted.

Research Methodology

In my experiment, there were 20 people who did this exam, 10 women and 10 men. My

controlled factors are the time and the objects they need to memorize. I kept them as my

controlled factors by monitoring the time of the experiment which is the 30 seconds, and give

my subjects the same picture in order to make sure the academic accuracy. My experiment is

designed to ultimately make assumptions on the short-term memory capacity of people based

on gender. Therefore, we will record and keep track of the observation of each gender and

draw conclusions based on the results.

Research Result
The final result shows that females and males have similar remembering abilities.

Questionnaire: Do males and females have different abilities when

making and remembering observations?

Name(gender)/ 1 2 3 4 Correct

Question question

number

1.Yibo Wang (M) c b c b 3

2.Xiaoming Huang c c c b 2

3.Illian Wang b b c c 3

4.Charlie Chu c b b b 2

5.Field Zhao a d c c 2

6.Frank Zhao c b c c 4

7.Jacky Zhou a d c b 1

8.Charles Ji c b d c 3

9.Gary Li c c c c 3

10.Peter Lu b b c b 2

11. Ciarrah Wang c c c c 3

12. Cecilia Shen c b d a 2

13.Quella Fan c c c a 2
14.Dilraba Dilmurati c b c c 4

15.Nina Ren c a c c 3

16. Angela Yang a b c c 3

17.Faye Li b b c b 2

18. Vanessa Zhang c c a a 1

19. Joy Lu c a c c 3

20.Helen Mao c a d d 1

Our subjects will have the 30s to look at the images I provide, and when they finished, there

will have 4 questions which are related to the details from the images. After running all of our

subjects through the experiment, we were able to observe how they explored the images. The

result shows that actually, the memorial ability between females and males is nearly equal.

Although there do have some people who do extremely good work or do relatively adverse

work which will affect the result, as we can also see above that as the person who does the

work which will affect the ultimate result, 2 of them are males, and 3 of them are females,

which did not really make a big difference in the overall results.

Discussion

Even with this small amount of data, we can see essence through the phenomenon about the

memorial abilities between males and females. The average score from females are about

73.4%, and males get 73.6% in average. Subjective experience makes the viewer believe their
vision, the system provides a complete and true reproduction of the scene in front of them -

similar to a relatively detailed reproduction of a color photograph. Also, my results suggest

that gender does not have much effect on memory. We ran the same experiment on all

subjects and found no significant difference in accuracy between men and women. The

figures were calculated by dividing the number of correct responses for each gender by the

average of the total number of images. There was little difference between men and women in

memory efficiency, just a negligible error of 0.2 percent. I hypothesize that our female

subjects will prove to have better memories than their male counterparts. This proved wrong

in our results, despite that according to a report from Science Daily magazine that they think

female and male do have some differences when they were trying to remember something,

nut they also say that‘ There are specific things that take a lot of research to conclude, and

sometimes there are subtle differences.’ Although this figure may be inflated by the number of

subjects in the study. With only 10 subjects in each category, the percentages of accuracy

would be closer, so the gap between the two groups would narrow. Effective research into the

effects of gender and memory will lead to determining which genders have better memories

and why, and can bring the other genders up to standard. Hopefully, my experiment will

inspire more research focused on this area.

Conclusions and Recommendations

Since my experiment produced results that I can draw conclusions from, I consider it a

success. According to the results I collected from the experiment, I can conclude. Although

my hypothesis was wrong, it added to my feelings of surprise and joy when I found the truth.
Since my male and female subjects answered the same number of questions correctly, this

suggests that women's memory is actually similar to men's memory. So it seems that gender

doesn't matter much in the use of memory. For experiment next, in my opinion, we can

research whether females and males may have different abilities when remembering different

kinds of objects. The reason why I recommend that as the experiment we can do next is that

what we're doing right now is a partial study of memory between men and women, so we can

go on to search for the particular differences between male and female, such as there may

have some differences when they remember the objective things or subjective things, and that

will help us to do the further study of the memory.

Reference List:

1. Henderson, J.M., & Hollingworth, A. (1999) Research Report: The role of fixation position

in detecting scene changes across saccades. American Psychological Snulociety, VOL.10,

NO. 5, 438 – 443.

2.Daryl,B.O (2013) Research Report[online]: Are women better than nen at taskink?

https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2050-7283-1-18

3. Rahul.S & Joey.L (2014) Research Report: Short Term Memory Based on Gender. [online]

http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc412/fall03/teams/reports/group5.pdf

4. Zicarrdi.B (2018) Who Remembers What? Gender difference in the memory [online]

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/banaji/files/1987_loftus_mqr.pdf
5. ScienceDaily (2008) Sex Differences In Memory: Women Better Than Men At

Remembering Everyday Events[online] Available from:

sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220104244.htm