memory: individual differences in authobiographical memory

Question 1

individual differences

Answer 1

• ltm episodic and semantic memory (Tulving 1972)
• use of case studies of brain-damaged patients gives us important insight into nature of human memory, and relative independence and links between various memory stores and functions
• however, extent of such brain damage and response of individual patients to damage highlights important individual differences between unique cases.
• important to acknowledge that care should be taken when generalising findings of these unique cases to overall understanding of memory in whole population