Impact of Gender on Reaction Times

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The Impact of Gender on Reaction Times to Visual Go/No-go and Choice Tasks for Females and Males 40-50 University of Maryland University College Psychology 300 Abstract The study suggests that females 40-50 will have a significantly faster reaction time than males in the same group on both Visual Go/No-go and choice tasks. The study involved 25 male and female student participants from the University of Maryland University College. Both groups were given two tasks: the Go/No-go (GNG) and choice (CRT). There are previous reports that noted that females reacted quicker in regular and irregular procedures that were timed (Lefcourt & Siegel, 1970). Also females surpass males on attention and reasoning speed. However there are studies that show males to be more precise and sometimes faster. There is no perfect agreement whether females always outperforms males due to the types of test and the interpretation of the data. The study supports that women may outperform men if the task required speed combined with accuracy. The Impact of Gender on Reaction Times to Visual Go/No-go and Choice Tasks for Females and Males 40-50 Introduction It is without debate and well established that the aging process is coupled with undeniable decline in motor function and performance. Evidence points firmly to the benefits of being a female. Females possessed better processing ability when both groups were exposed to identical visual stimuli and had better recall. Under both actual and trial conditions, females demonstrated better implied memory for object recall than males. Females also demonstrated superior recall of object location (McGivern, Adams, Handa, &Pineda, 2012). According to Jimenez-Jimenez et al, 2012, numerous studies also reported the ability to execute fine motor were gender-related. There are modest facts about the role of sex and reaction times; however, the
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