IntroductionVerbal memory refers to a person's ability to store, retrieve, and recall verbal information. When it comes to verbal memory in general, there is no specific way to administer a verbal learning test. From six articles, there are three different verbal learning tests administered: the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) (Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1987), the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RVLT), (Rey, 1993) the Phonologically Unknown Language Test (PULT) (Kaushanskaya, Marian, & Yoo, 2011) and the Philadelphia Repeated Verbal Learning Test (PrVLT) (Libon, Schmidt, Gallo, Penney, Swenson, Giovannetti et al. 2005). As there are many different ways to test verbal memory, different hypotheses and conclusions can be drawn, although in every test of verbal learning the consensus is that females outperform male participants. The problem arises when researchers decide to which factor to attribute women's high performance. For many, the answer lies in how words are remembered. My authors, including Baxter, Conner, Comer, Herring, and Gale (2007) and Krueger and Salthouse (2010), suggest that females have better storage; encoding and learning system than men, while others, such as Kramer, Yaffe, Lengenfelder, and Delis (2003), conclude that the answer lies in hormones such as estrogen. The lack of continuity between testing techniques and aberrant findings such as hormones calls for more research in the area of ​​gender and verbal memory. Suggested in Baxter, Conner, Comer, Herring, and Gale (2007) and Krueger and Salthouse (2010), a common conclusion as to why gender differences exist is the difference in encoding. One form of encoding is clustering when words are...... middle of paper......r than men in delayed recall, leading to the conclusion that women have a better d 'encoding that uses clustering and semantic processing to facilitate better storage and repetition of information. Although there was no significant gender difference between immediate and total word recall, women nevertheless performed slightly better than men on all memorization tasks. The question of why this happens remains unanswered, but the results seem to confirm that it is the woman's ability to cluster and encode that gives her an advantage in verbal memory. There is still much to learn about memory and many variables to test because there are many conflicting theories. This study once again confirms that women will almost always outperform men on verbal tasks, but exactly why this happens needs to be examined further to truly understand the nature of memory and gender...