Are ALL Memories Alike?

Gender Differences:
The article shows that a group of psychologists from Stockholm, Sweden have made experiments on trying to show if women or men exceed each other’s knowledge, in other words, which one is better. The experiment was carried out by pulling out three groups of participants with black and white pictures of men and women. They concluded that women tend to have a better episodic memory than men do, this because women are usually very meticulous with detail, especially in men. In fact, the article reads that women pay more attention to women faces than to male faces, making it easier for them to recall the face in future moments. The psychologists also discovered that men exceed women’s abilities on remembering symbolic, non-linguistic information, known as visuospatial processing. In the end, we may conclude that women perform much better in episodic memory whereas men perform better in remembering symbols and information that does not require linguistic explanation.

Cultural Differences:
The article about cultural differences explains through a series of descriptions and experiments that memories varies up to 2 years in difference among cultures around the world. For example, it’s said that a Korean may not remember anything before the age of 4 whereas a Maori New Zealander may remember things up to his 2 and a half years of age. A series of psychologists are still working on experiments to show that culture does have an effect in memory, that is, that people’s memory capacity differ from culture to culture. For example they have shown through experiments that a Caucasian has a better capacity of storing memories than do Chinese. After all, the article talks about the differences in memory capacity of people of different cultures among the world although it was not specific in the respect to why it is how it is.