Individual differences - Memory

• How is processing speed an individual difference?


  > Processing speed refers to the number of words that can be read in a certain time

  > Different people process information at different speeds

  > Memory capacity increases with age
• How are schemas an individual difference?


  > Schemas differ from one person to another depending on the knowledge, based on personal experiences

  > Experience based perception (confabulation)

  > Development of schemas affect how information is recalled
• How is autobiographical/episodic memory an individual difference?


  > Specific to each person, it is a collection of memories from their own life

  > Based of personalized events
• How do case studies and bran damaged patients link to individual differences?


  > Not reliable

  > Different patients have different parts of the brain damaged

  > e.g. if the frontal lobe is damaged it could effect the episodic memory