Researchers have noted sex differences in verbal memory performance with females showing a memory superiority effect. Research paradigms have largely incorporated experimenter-timed materials. Therefore, the extent to which self-regulating study time influences this pattern of sex differences is unclear. The researcher reexamined data from a published paper to determine whether sex differences in multitrial verbal learning are minimized when individuals self-regulate their study time, or if sex differences would still remain. The results from this study showed that females outperformed males on subsequent test trials, and they allocated more study time. Controlling for the influence of study time allocation reduced or eliminated sex differences in memory performance, and only study time allocation was related to whether items were gained or lost across trials. These findings suggest the importance of self-regulated learning in reducing sex differences on a verbal memory task and the contribution of study time allocation to memory performance.

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研究时间分配作为多试验口头学习表现中性别差异的贡献者的检查

研究人员注意到，女性在语言记忆表现方面存在性别差异，表现出记忆优势效应。研究范式在很大程度上纳入了实验者定时材料。因此，自我调节学习时间对这种性别差异模式的影响程度尚不清楚。研究人员重新检查了一篇已发表论文的数据，以确定当个人自我调节学习时间时，是否可以最大限度地减少多试验语言学习中的性别差异，或者性别差异是否仍然存在。这项研究的结果表明，在随后的测试试验中，女性的表现优于男性，她们分配了更多的学习时间。控制学习时间分配的影响减少或消除记忆性能的性别差异，只有研究时间分配与试验中项目的获得或丢失有关。这些发现表明自我调节学习在减少语言记忆任务的性别差异以及学习时间分配对记忆表现的贡献方面的重要性。