Introduction:
I believe that many other students like me that would like to believe that if a student got a good memory then his or her college life will be much easier. Having a good memory means you can easily remember and recall what you have heard from professors, or what you have read from textbooks. So, what is memory? Is that really so mysterious? In definition, memory is an organism's ability to store and retrieve information over time. Nowadays, people already know that how importantly and complicated the memory works. Simply saying, there are three functions of memory, which is encoding, storage, and retrieval. We transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory, then maintain information in memory over time, and finally retrieval when the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored.
Obviously, it is not anyone that has a good memory. When it comes to individual, everyone has different levels of ability to deal with memory. In reality, you will find many women complaining that their husbands or boyfriends tend to forget their birthdays and anniversaries; and men always explain that they have bad memories. So, is it true that women have a better memory than men?
Dose gender affect memory?
The evidence shows that gender dose affect memory. In fact, men and women are equally affected by short-term memory loss. Nevertheless, men can obtain a better long-term memory than women. In the follows, I will explain it more specifically.
Body:
Memory is the ability to store, retain, and recall information over time. Generally, memory is divided into three processes, which are sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Sensory memory store is the place in which sensory information is kept for few seconds or less. It happens quickly as well as fast decaying. For example, when you looking at an item and try to remember what it looks like just with a second of