Sex differences in memory estimates, revisited.

Full Abstract

207 undergraduate students (95 men and 112 women) representing all four years in college provided estimates of memory performance before and after a recall task involving 80 stimuli (41) pictures and 40 words). The study was intended as a replication of the work of Ionescu in 2000 wherein men underestimated their performance on the picture items and women underestimated their performance on the words. No sex differences were found for correct recall totals, recall for pictures, recall for words, and total prerecall performance estimates. Although both men and women underestimated their pre- and postrecall performance, women underestimated their postrecall performance more than men. More importantly, men underestimated their performance on recall of pictures, whereas women underestimated their performance on the word items, thereby validating prior results with a larger sample. The possible bases for this phenomenon are still not clear.

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Author information

Author/s: Ionescu, Marcos D (MD);

Affiliation: School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387, USA. Marcos.Ionescu@Marist.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Validation Studies

Journal: Psychological reports (Psychol Rep), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Aug; vol 91 (issue 1) : pp 167-72

Dates: Created 2002/09/30; Completed 2002/10/18; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12353775, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Adolescent
Adult
Female
Humans

Humans
Male
Memory
Vocabulary

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