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- Autobiographical memory
- Memory related to one\'s life span, which include both specific events and self-related information.
- 2 memory system involved
- Semantic memory Episodic memory
- 4 possible functions
- directive social self-representation cope with adversity
- Overall limitation
- Largely speculated(rarly used directly) Unclear separation(are they claerly separated into different categories in actual practice?)
- 4 Methods of the study
- Using diary probe asking M associated with publuc event or specific time period brain damage or emotional stress patients
- Pros n cons -diary
- can check the accuracy of the memory(real or not) Can examine the relative importance of different types of event and experience. Sampling bias encoding process itself can cause deeper encoding. Require accumulated diary.
- pros n cons of the probe method
- It enable to know about the distribution of the AM.
- Reminiscence bump
- A tendency in participants over 40 to show a high rate of recollecting personal events from their late teesn to 20s.
- Life narrative
- A coherent and integrated account of one\'s life that is claimed to form the base of the AM.
- 3 main distributions of AM.
- Beginning) Infantal amnesia - little M Middle) memory bump - many important life events which decided later life are appered in this period End) high - recency effect
- Cultural difference in reminiscence bump
- Similar pattern But, there is difference in the age of the first memory. *U.s-3.8 , Chinese - 5.4
- What kind of the memory is especially showing the bump?
- Event that influence life narrative idea.
- Using different cues can cause different pattern of the bump.(it is moving)
- smell(best cue), verbal, visual.
- Dating problem.
- Memory for the cue \"when\" is the weakest.
- Conway\'s define
- AM is the system that retained knowledge concering the experienced self
- Conway - The purpose of the AM
- It retain the access to related EM. (The knowledge base itself is broad representation of the life, so, whole system depends on the interaction between working self and knowledge base.
- The role of the Working self-convoy
- It comprises a complex set of active goal and self-images.
- Conway - Whis level is most associated with Tulving\'s idea of autonewtic consciousness?
- The capacity to reflect on our thought
- Relation to Episodic and semantic memory - the speed of the retrieval (Conway)
- Accessing such a detailed memory takes relatively long time.
- Memory\'s spotlight and self-esteem.
- We tend to place ourselves center-stage of the AM by emphasizing our role and significance. It might be help because it helps us maintain our self-esteem.
- 2 ways in which depressed patient\'s autobiographical memory differs
- 1) tend to retrieve negative M -> deepening the depression. 2) Retrieve less datils -> result of the preoccupation with negative thoughts.