Memory in Aging Experiences
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A 60-year old was interviewed about their experience growing up in Australia. It was found that their memory of events between the ages of 20 and 30 were very good, particularly for important events, for example going to university, getting married and having children. This observation fits with the:

  • Cultural life script hypothesis of the reminiscence bump. (correct)
  • Cognitive hypothesis of the reminiscence bump.
  • Youth bias hypothesis of the reminiscence bump.
  • Self-image hypothesis of the reminiscence bump.

    • Which of the below is an example of a source misattribution error?

  • Mistaking a fake country from a film for a real country. (correct)
  • Having trouble forgetting things that are irrelevant to the task at hand.
  • Mistakenly believing that a memory from an emotionally charged event that happened a long time ago is more accurate than it actually is.
  • Having better memory for certain special events in your life.

    • People often have trouble recognising or recalling details of simple objects such as coins. Why might that be?

  • All other options are correct. (correct)
  • Stored memory is not exact - unlike a photograph.
  • We develop schemas of meaningful features of objects and leave out the details.
  • We use shortcuts to encode information and reconstruct the details during retrieval.

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