Individual Differences In Memory

Question 1

What can cause individual differences in memory

Answer 1

Processing speed

Age

Gender

Past experiences

Question 2

How does processing speed effect memory

Answer 2

Some people take longer to process what information means and may have to read over information several time in order to understand it fully

Question 3

How does ages effect memory

Answer 3

Sebastian and Hernandez Gil

Found younger children have a shorter digit span that older children, suggesting that memory capacity increase with age

Question 4

How does gender effect memory

Answer 4

Daniela (2012)
Used 598 volunteer pp and using a questionnaire with closed questions and found men scored higher than women on spatial memory

Question 5

How can past experiences effect memory

Answer 5

Schemes are heavily influenced by past experience, as proposed by Bartlett, thus effecting the way we perceive information

Also true that episodic memory is individual to the person as everyone has different life experiences and thus everyone will perceive information slightly differently