ANALYSIS - COMPARISON TO PRIOR EXPERIMENT
TO PUSH MY STUDIES FURTHER...
I noticed that the female participants often agreed on colours, whereas there was often a disagreement in male subject’s responses corresponding to those traits. Both genders noticed the remarkable details of the faces that were shown. Females made numerous connections to the images that they saw, while this genre of observation was not executed by the male participants. I believe that the formulation of connections will aid them to link these newly formed memories to pre-existing ones16. Females recalled an average of 12% higher than the males.
Remarkable details were recorded by both genders. Females retained an average of 7% higher than their male counterparts.
Females retained 2% more than the male subjects. There was less of a significant loss of information observed during Quiz #2 to Quiz #3, when compared to Quiz #1 to Quiz #2, due to the fact that the majority of the information retained were solely the remarkable details.
Quiz #1 to Quiz #2: The adults scored an average of 7% more than the adolescents.
- Females from both age groups scored 6% higher than their male counterparts.
Quiz #2 to Quiz #3: The adults scored an average of 6% more than the adolescents.
- Adult females retained 2% more the males; the adolescent females also retained 2% more than the adolescent males.
- There was a decrease in the information that was retained, which affected both age categories and both gender, however, the female adults retained the most information. Male participants retained less information right after the viewing since they simply recalled the more prominent details. It’s for that reason that they experienced less of a massive drop in retention. On the contrary, they still had a lower retention rate compared to the females, since they didn’t make as many connections to the images that were shown.
- My hypotheses are confirmed:
- practice hones memory and stressed was a factor, therefore teachers’ triumphed.
- Females retained the most information, since attention correlates with retention.
- There’s a sequence to facial memory which starts off with a high volume of retention, a loss of information and continue on with a plateau.
- Females retained the highest volume of information; they made connections to the images they saw and focused on many aspects of the images.
- Male participants retained less information right after the viewing, since they simply recalled the more prominent details. It’s for that reason that they experienced less of a massive drop in retention. On the contrary, they still had a lower retention rate compared to the females, since they didn’t make as many connections to the images that were shown.
- I can conclude that one of the most helpful strategies that aid in facial memory retention is: making connections. Connections strengthen memory formation, thus, trying to find an association that could be used as a mnemonic will help elongate and vivify your memory.
- Test my sequence theory of facial recognition in other age groups:
- Expand this experiment with elders, to see how long practice can be helpful until the potential threats of memory-damaging diseases, such as Alzheimer's, arises.
- Experimenting with young children would permit me to observe if stress-free elementary students, who are at their learning peak, have the best retention rate.
- The goal of my project wasn’t solely to find the answers to my questions, but it also acted to push the studies and the understanding of facial memory further, and to improve marketing and advertising strategies with the obtained data.
- Due to the limited sample size, there is the possible margin for errors. To assure that all the data is scientifically correct, I will expand this experient with the same age groups, during the same time at the year.