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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY

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An autobiographical memory is a personal representation of general or specific events and personal facts.

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Types

  • Specific Events
  • When one first stepped foot in the ocean. On a family trip to California.
  • General Events
  • What it is like stepping into the ocean for oneself generally. This is a memory of what a personal event is generally like. One might have based it on the memories of having stepped in the ocean, many times during the years one lived in California.
  • Personal Facts
  • Flash Bulb Memories
  • Flash bulb memories are critical Autobiographical Memories about a major event. Some flash bulb memories are shared within a social group and today, much of humanity.
"Where were you on 9/11?"
"The assassination of John Kennedy?"
"The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.?"
"The Challenger explosion?"
"The verdict in the OJ Simpson trial?"

See also

Autobiographic memory is a major research area within cognitive science which is itself a movement in psychology. Understanding emotion and memory is important for predicting which autobiographical events will be remembered.

References

  • Brown, R., & Kulik, J. (1977). Flashbulb memories. Cognition, 5, 73-99.
  • Conway, M. A., & Pleydell Pearce, C. W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self memory system. Psychological Review, 107, 261-288.
  • Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., & Greenberg, D. L. (2003). Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories. Memory and Cognition, 31, 887-901.

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