Individual Differences in Memory

Question 1

MSM

Answer 1

capacity and duration of both STM and LTM are averages-means there is a variation in these between people

Question 2

Reconstructive memory

Answer 2

schemas are personal experiences- different between people as they have different experiences

Question 3

episodic and semantic memory

Answer 3

both come from past experiences either from your lifetime or from the learning events- individual differences are in LTM

Question 4

WMM

Answer 4

ability of central executive to shift attention and its ability to multi-task between tasks may vary from person to person-individual differences