Gender Differences in Visual Scanning, Response Speed and Sustained Attention

By : Farisha. A.T.P, Rasha Salam, Nidha Nourin, Nida Fathima

Page No: 123-131

Abstract
Psychology of gender is a significant field that has attracted a number of researchers. It was evidence based that there is gender difference in various dimensions like behaviour, emotions, cognition etc. Although a number of researches have been done in these areas, gender difference in the miniscule aspects of cognitive ability has not received much attention. Moreover, it doesn’t need substantiation that cognitive abilities strongly determine our performance and achievements. The present study considers three basic elements of cognitive abilities, namely visual scanning ability, response speed and sustained attention and tries to identify the gender difference in these cognitive skills among a sample of 53 graduate students in Kannur district (male = 23 and female= 30). Man-whitney U test was used to analyze the data as the data doesn’t fulfills the normal distribution criteria. Result shows that there is significant difference in two tasks whereas there is no difference in 3 tasks between males and females. This difference can be generalized after further research with a larger sample and wherein extraneous variables that could have caused such a result can be controlled.

Authors :
Farisha. A.T.P : Assistant Professor – Department of Psychology, Wadihuda Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Kannur University, Kerala
Rasha Salam : Student – Department of Psychology, Wadihuda Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Kannur University, Kerala
Nidha Nourin : Student – Department of Psychology, Wadihuda Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Kannur University, Kerala.
Nida Fathima : Student – Department of Psychology, Wadihuda Institute of Research and Advanced Studies, Kannur University, Kerala.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.13