Sunday, September 23, 2012

Culture Differences and Gender Differences



Cultural Differences:

Categories (Key forming of memory)

- cultures affects - differ in their strategies
    Ex)Western - Squirrel & raccoon / Eastern - Squirrel & nut

- lenses effect - information is encoded into memory - how those memories are organized
     evidence - Western culture - focus on categories / Eastern - focus on contextual details and similarities(functional relationships)

- 1. Research - analyzed the pattern of error in memory which element of information processing differ between culture [in Turkey]
                   - Important because people have various viewpoint and stay together in business especially global
                    - Compared China, Japan, Korea, to the US, and Canada (but, many people said stack dichotomy is mistaken.)

- 2. Research - Turkish (both Asian culture and European Culture) students give a word to remember which is categorically related
                      - can semantic association error
                      - American - making more category - base error / Turk - making more association error

Gender Differences:

Episodic Memory (kind of long-term memory)


-Psychologist Agneta Herlitz & Jenny Rehman

-sex influences the ability to remember everyday events

-women: verbal episodic memory task ex) word, object, pictures, every day events
  men: visuospatial (non - linguistic) processing ex)remembering symbolize, non - linguistic

-women - favor in task ex) location of car key

-women - good remember about face, especially female

-women - good at little to no verbal processing more than men ex) recognition of familiar oder

short term memory

-differences from both brain function and brain construction variances

-1. Some hormones, such as Testosterone and Estrogen affect on brain development
      -Man have many neurons than women - make difference
        - Old - killing neurons - can explain why many neurons make difference

-Women often get higher grade in verbal test than men when

-short term memory is influenced by the 'genderness'

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