individual differences in memory/ dev psych

Question 1

processing speed

Answer 1

speed at which we process info differs

Question 2

schemas

Answer 2

people will have similar info in different schemas as they are influenced by experiences some differences in how people remember objects

Question 3

episodic memory

Answer 3

individual to a person as it’s a collection of memories eg Daniela Palombo investigated ID in naturalistic autobiographic memory
people who scored high/low in episodic same with semantic
men scored higher in spatial memory
people with depression low episodic and semantic

Question 4

loftus and levidow and duesing

Answer 4

science museum film clip who remembered what
recollection increases up to 25-35 fall in over 65 and females outperformed
more educated more accurate and males subject to misinformation

Question 5

dyslexia

Answer 5

struggle to learn how to recognise and decode printed words cannot read accurately or fluently- poor verbal STM using phonological similarity effect and word length effect
mcdougall et al 90 kids into different reading groups poor readers lower memory spans and slow reading rate, good readers articulate words quickly more words represented phonologically in STM
alloway et al dyslexia difficulty processing and remembering speech due to poor working memory cannot hold all speech soounds long enough to bind together investigating 45 kids with reading disability STM deficits cause of memory issues

Question 6

alzheimers

Answer 6

deteriorates memory for new events, affects WM and central exec- eg Bddeley et al- look for letter Z among easy and difficult distractor letters and dual taks procedure and alzheimers did wirse than control suggesting tasks where attention is needed on more than one thing is impaired by this disease