Introduction
Memory is in itself a gigantic field, depending on whether one wishes to test the subject's ability to recall learned information, past events in ones personal life, or random chains of numbers. Furthermore, not only the information, but also the manner in which it is presented, is certainly relevant to any discussion of this construct. While I do not hope in this study to test the construct of memory per se, I do hope to arrive at some meaningful conclusions as to whether or not individuals tend to be better at recalling abstract or concrete terms via the short-term memory. I well also like to investigate whether gender affects one's ability to recall these terms. Finally, I intend to empirically test whether or not an oral or visual means of presenting these terms affects the subjects' recall ability.
Within cognitive psychology, the concept of working memory represents a modification and extension of an earlier concept, short-term memory, a limited-capacity......
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