Autobiographical Memory, Memory for specific experiences from our life, Autobiographical Memory can include, episodic and semantic components, Autobiographical Memory must involve, Mental time travel, Dimensions of autobiographical memory, Spatial, emotional, and sensory, Events that people remember well, Significant, highly emotional, transitions, Reminiscence Bump, Memory is high for recent events and for events that occurred in adolescence and early adulthood, Explanation for reminiscence bump, Self-image hypothesis, cognitive hypothesis and cultural life script hypothesis, Self-image hypothesis, Memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person’s self-image or life identity is being formed, Cognitive hypothesis, Encoding is better during periods of rapid change that are followed by stability, Cultural life-script hypothesis, Personal events are easier to recall when they fit the cultural life script, Emotion and memory, Emotion improves memory - emotional events remembered more easily and vividly, Flashbulb Memories, Memory for circumstances surrounding shocking, highly charged important events, Myth about flashbulbs memories, Flashbulbs are “photograph” memories, Narrative rehearsal hypothesis, We remember certain events better because of repeated viewing/hearing of event, Constructive Nature of Memory, Memory = What actually happens + person’s knowledge, experiences, and expectations, Source memory, process of determining origins of our memories, Source monitoring error/source misattributions, misidentifying source of memory, Cryptoamnesia, Unconscious plagiarism of another’s work due to a lack of recognition of its original source, Pragmatic inferences, Inferences people make based on knowledge gained through experience, Schema, Knowledge about some aspect of the environment, Script, Conception of sequence of actions that usually occurs during a particular experience, Memory and Schema, Memory can include information not actually experienced but inferred because it is expected and consistent with the schema, Misinformation effect, Misleading information presented after a person witnesses an event can change how that person describes the event later, Eyewitness testimony can be inaccurate due to, Mistaken identity or constructive nature of memory, False Memories, Individuals “remembered” new events as actually happening or recalled inaccurately.

C8 Everyday Memory and Memory Errors

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