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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Processing speed of information + capacity increases with age: young have shorter digit spans
Autobiographical memory : personalised events
Schemas influenced by experience affecting perception and retrieval of information
Daniela Palombo et al. (2012): Survey of Autobiographical memory for individual differences in
Autobiographical memory =
- Episodic
- Semantic
- Spatial
- Prospective (imagination of future)
Questionnaire of 102 items on a 5 point Likert scale
High/low score on episodic memory = High/low score (similar) on semantic memory
Men scored higher on spatial memory
Self-reported depression had low score on episodic + semantic memory
= Insight into self-reported accounts of naturalistic memory that couldn’t be captured under lab
conditions, however pps may have made inaccurate self-appraisal / lacked insight to make
accurate judgements of their own memory performance.
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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Processing speed of information + capacity increases with age: young have shorter digit spans
Autobiographical memory : personalised events
Schemas influenced by experience affecting perception and retrieval of information
Daniela Palombo et al. (2012): Survey of Autobiographical memory for individual differences in
Autobiographical memory =
- Episodic
- Semantic
- Spatial
- Prospective (imagination of future)
Questionnaire of 102 items on a 5 point Likert scale
High/low score on episodic memory = High/low score (similar) on semantic memory
Men scored higher on spatial memory
Self-reported depression had low score on episodic + semantic memory
= Insight into self-reported accounts of naturalistic memory that couldn’t be captured under lab
conditions, however pps may have made inaccurate self-appraisal / lacked insight to make
accurate judgements of their own memory performance.
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