Autobiographical memory
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- What is the 1st hypthesis
- is that the bump in the cue word procedure is caused by demand characteristics
- demand characterictic:
- demand characteristics refers to an experimental artifact where participants form an interpretation of the experiment's purpose and unconsciously change their behavior accordingly
- 2nd hypothesis:
- longer times spent trying to retrieve bump memories causes the bump.
- 3rd hyp:
- The third hypothesis is that there are more memories from the 10-to-30 period that are judged by the participants themselves to be especially important and therefore more worthy of reporting and that these memories are the basis for the increased number of memories in the bump.
- 4th:
- more events from the bump are included in life narrative scripts
- 5th
- There are more first occurrences and other novel events in the bump.
- 6th
- vivid or emotional memories occur more during the 10-to-30 period, and such memories, as opposed to important and novel memories, cause the bump----- emotionality-----
- 7th
- Under this hypothesis, the bump memories are not more important, novel, vivid, or emotional nor do people put any special effort into recalling bump memories. Rather, more memories are recalled from the bump because more lasting memories are stored and maintained from the 10-to-30 period than from other periods of the life span for reasons not considered in the other hypotheses. Memories from the bump may be encoded or retained better because of differences in basic biological processes or because the environment in general, and not just the aspect of it that is going to be remembered, is rapidly changing for a person at this time but because no specific mechanism can be found, no test can be offered.
- This is related to hypothesis #1: That the bump occurs because something about the way in which people are asked for the memories biases them to recall memories from that time in their life. If that were true, then the results should be the same for
- the bias instructions for the 20b group, but not for the 73b group, had a major impact on slope. This appears to be because the bias toward early memories appears to have extended into the second decade of life, which includes the most recent 10 years of life for the 20b group