THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEMORY AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION WITH GENDER AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS OF URMIA MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY

Memory gives possibility to mental life of human including thoughts,
perceptions, opinions, and in general, learning. Academic failure rely on the weakness of memory is
an internal and durable supporting oneself influences on the learning strongly and negatively. The
purpose of this research is the study of the effect of memory and motivation with gender and academic
achievement in order to prevent students from falling.
Materials & Methods: 89 of successful and unsuccessful of non-medical and medical students from
both sexes were under investigation by measuring short-term and long-term memories and the
achievement motive. Measuring instrument of this study were Short-term and long-term memories
tests, AMT and mean average of the students. And finally the analysis of variance was used for
analyzing data .
Result: There was no significant difference between Short-term and long-term memories in both
sexes. Also between short-term and long-term memories of successful and unsuccessful students as
well as medical and non-medical students no significant differences were observed .But in our study
we found significant difference between achievement motivation in both successful and unsuccessful
students. Finally in this study females showed significantly higher motivation than males.
Conclusion: The results showed that success or failure of students in all courses and grades in both
sexes is more related to the motivation than memory