Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Frontal Lobe, Endocrine System, Episodic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

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Individual differences: stable patterns of performance that differ qualitatively and or quantitatively across individuals, intelligence, expertise, bilingualism, aging, gender difference. Novices: novices- persons who are inexperienced in a eld or situation, novices see less information than experts do, novices make arti cial connections, and experts make connections on deeper levels. Long term memory: age differences depend on complexity, simple ltm tasks (e. g. recognition): differences between young and older are small or non-existent, complex ltm tasks (e. g. strategic recall): differences between young and older are large. Semantic vs. episodic memory in older adults: mitchell 1998, semantic memory, (e. g. what is the chemical formula for salt?, no age differences, episodic memory, (e. g. did you put salt on your food at lunch yesterday?, young out-performed older. Possible explanations for age differences in memory performance: contextual cues hypothesis, older adults perform more poorly on tests with few contextual cues, recall < recognition, older adults have poorer source memory (memory for contextual cues at encoding.