Memory - how is it affected by gender and culture

Gender Differences

Men and women process things in different ways with different parts of their brains. it seems that testosterone and estrogen have different effects on how the brain cells turn out and how they function. There is also difference in neurons bethween men and women. This could explain why women have worse cases of dementia and Alzheimers. different perspectives and interests that those things which are the focus of a particular gender also impact how memory is used.

Psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Jenny Rehnman in Stockholm did a research about gender difference and effects on the memory. They found out that women have better episodic memory, a type of long-term memory based on personal experiences. Women also excelled in verbal episodic memory tasks. Men on the other hand were better at remembering symbolic, non-linguistic information, known as visuospatial processing. Women curenlty hold an advantage in episodic memory. 

Culture Differences

The culture that we grow up with determines our view on things. Western cultures tend to focus on objects and categories, ­whereas people from Eastern cultures tend to focus more on contextual details and similarities and sort by functional relationships. Our parents and our surrounding also plays a big role on our memory. The way family comunicates and talks to as, repeats certain events. The more is our memory focused on family events rather than on indivudual memories. The earliest memory a person can have can be 2,5years (tribes), 3years(USA) or 4years(Korea).