2/14/2024 0 Comments Memory pictures words![]() ![]() Participants that viewed pictures were able to remember more of the pictures they saw than participants who viewed words. My experiment did, however, find a slight difference in the ability to remember pictures over words. So, my experiment didn’t find any difference in short-term memory between males and females, as both genders had the same averages. Men and women remembered the same average number of words and the same average number of pictures. I believed in these outcomes because my research told me that men tend to have better short-term memory than women and the Picture Superiority Effect explains that pictures tend to be the easiest for people to remember, not words.Īfter completing this experiment, I found my hypothesis to be somewhat accurate. I also believed that both males and females would be able to remember more pictures than words. With this study, I believed or hypothesized, that men would have better short-term memory than women. I had two males and two females view pictures, and the other two males and two females viewed words. I also wanted all of my participants to be roughly the same age so differences in recollection were not caused by age differences. This population was chosen because I have the most access to college-age students, considering that I am one. A total of eight participants completed my experiment, four of them male and four of them female, all of whom were between the ages of 18 and 22. Distractions were avoided by testing each participant in a quiet, private room. Once their time was up, I asked them to immediately write down what they could recall seeing on a separate sheet of paper. Participants were asked to view either the pictures or the words for a total of fifteen seconds. I selected a series of twenty pictures and twenty words for my participants to view. This is known as the Picture Superiority Effect, which basically states that pictures are the easiest for people to remember and often the first thing remembered. A study conducted using college students found that pictures, and pictures with word labels, were much more easily remembered by participants than just words (Srivastava & Purohit, 1983). This method has been used countless times and often produces the same results. My research brought me to the conclusion that the best way to find answers would be to have participants memorize pictures and words. To figure out how I wanted to put my experiment together I did a lot of research.
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