PSY 654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Temporal Lobe, Autobiographical Memory, Parietal Lobe
14 Dec 2015
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Autobiographical memory: regarding personal past is complex memory since it contains both semantic and episodic information. Field perspectives: more common for recent memories, first person perspective, imagining scene in your own head and re-experience everything as yourself. Observer perspective: more common for distant memories, these memories are false because its impossible for anyone to have a memory that is observing themselves, this perspective was never experienced this proves that memory is reconstructed. Photos: when people are shown old photos they took themselves and old photos others took they activate medial temporal lobe (episodic memory) and parietal lobe (scene processing) A time in your life you find yourself going back more reminiscence bump: why than any other time life narrative hypothesis occur. Around this time many important life firsts . Encoding is better for period of change followed if emotional memories are more remembered, teenage years bring many more extreme emotions linking them to more memorable memories.
