Gender differences in adult word learning
| Autor: | Viorica Marian, Margarita Kaushanskaya, Jeewon Yoo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Adult
Male Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Short-term memory Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verbal learning Article Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans media_common Sex Characteristics Recognition Psychology Cognition Phonology General Medicine Verbal Learning Memory Short-Term Female Verbal memory Psychology Word (group theory) Sex characteristics Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Acta Psychologica. 137:24-35 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6918 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.02.002 |
| Popis: | In prior work, women were found to outperform men on short-term verbal memory tasks. The goal of the present work was to examine whether gender differences on short-term memory tasks are tied to the involvement of long-term memory in the learning process. In Experiment 1, men and women were compared on their ability to remember phonologically-familiar novel words and phonologically-unfamiliar novel words. Learning of phonologically-familiar novel words (but not of phonologically-unfamiliar novel words) can be supported by long-term phonological knowledge. Results revealed that women outperformed men on phonologically-familiar novel words, but not on phonologically-unfamiliar novel words. In Experiment 2, we replicated Experiment 1 using a within-subjects design, and confirmed gender differences on phonologically-familiar, but not on phonologically-unfamiliar stimuli. These findings are interpreted to suggest that women are more likely than men to recruit native-language phonological knowledge during novel word-learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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