Ashton is forty-five years old. He has vivid memories of the significant events that took place in his youth. However, he finds
it difficult to recollect the events that took place in the first and fourth decades of his life. In the context of memory retrieval, this ability to recall events from certain phases of his life is known as _________.A) the reminiscence bump B) the serial position effect
C) absentmindedness
D) interference
In the context of memory retrieval, this ability to recall events from certain phases of his life is known as the reminiscence bump.
Explanation:
The reminiscence bump is the tendency for older adults usually over forty years, to have enhanced recollection of events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood.
They usually remember things between the 10-30 years period.
A.This is reminiscence bump. And it is the ability of adults from 40 years and above to have a vivid recollection of youthful and early adulthood events of their life time. Generally individuals in the course of life store memories of episode of the experiences of particular events,objects person at a particular place and time, and the brain combines this with the general factual or explicit events of life to give detailed memory of life events.This is autobiography memory.
However, because of dynamic nature of man, this autobiography memory is not static, it fluctuates with life events, shifting the identity, position and time of event in the course of life. Thus affecting the combination of previously stored memories of life event with place and position(episodic memories) with the present factual word (explicit memories)of the present moment. Therefore reminiscence bump is deu to inconsistencies in the autobiography memory.
Therefore this alteration explains reasons for difficulty in recollection of certain events in the first and fourth decades of life.
