Short Term Memory

            My intentions are to find out which gender has the best memory. For the females I will pick out five pictures of items or types that females relate to. I will do the same for the males using male gender type photos.
             For the questions I will ask the females five questions about the female gender type. Then 10 about the male gender. I will do the same with males but five about the male gender and 10 about the female gender type.
             For an example. If a female is in cheerleading and has really long hair how should she wear her hair? After asking them all the questions I will what 3 to 5 minutes. Then come back and ask them to list verbally the questions I have asked them. The reason why I am waiting to come back and ask them to verbally list the questions asked is because I will then know if they have a good memory or not. I will tell them if they did good or not so good.
             I will ask about four from the group of 15 through 16 year olds. Then ask four for the 12 through 13 year olds and the same with the group of 30 through 40 year olds and I will do the same with the 50 through 60 year olds.
             In 1949 psychologist Donald O. Hebb came up with a simple yet profound idea to explain the memory. Donald's rule says that memory is produced when two connect neurons are active simultaneously in a way that somehow strengthens the memory to work.
             A quicker answer is that either the type can be more memorable depending on the type of circumstances but visual information is more easily remembered overall.
            
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