Igor Areh Gender Differences

In 2011, Igor Areh conducted a study that focused on the “gender differences in memory recall when participants are asked to describe an event they believe to be true” (Areh, 2011). Areh had his participants watch a two minute video that consisted of a woman getting robbed by a man. In order to “achieve higher ecological validity of research results”, Areh used deception in his research experiment and told his participants that they were helping the police with a criminal investigation that was taking place; the police wanted to know if their assumptions about the investigation were correct (Areh, 2011). After Areh’s participants watch the video, he had his participants fill out a checklist a week later. Once Areh conducted his experiment,