Cognitive Psychology: Individual Differances Flashcards
Why is culture an individual difference?
 because we get schemas from the environment around us. Our schemas will vary from person to person and culture to culture. 
Why is age a developmental difference?
A memory improves with age peaking in middle life and declining with old-age.
Why is gender an individual difference?
Schemas may be different between men and women and this might affect what I remember and how they remember it. For example, Wang 2013 found that women were better than men at recognising photographs of faces that they had seen before but only female faces when it came to male face is the score of the same as men.
Why is personality an individual difference?
Introvert spend more time thinking about the past so they rehearsed memories more, extrovert a focused on the present and pay more attention to sensory experiences.
Why is photographic memory an individual difference?
If someone has an unusual memory ability it will affect how their memory functions. For example, Kim Peek Who was born with brain damage that caused him to Have a photographic memory so he could recall extreme detail with something he’d only seen once.
Why is dyslexia an individual difference?
Children with dyslexia perform poorly on memory span tests. Dyslexia involves the short memorys Capacity and decrease their ability to learn especially with reading activities.
Why might Alzheimer’s be a developmental difference?
Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia which affect your episodic memory fast as the hippocampus is damaged. After the disease will also affect the patient semantic knowledge. For example, the names of objects
