PHL340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Episodic Memory, Narratology
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There are two types of events: general events: events you did a bunch of times, particular events: events you did once or a few times, most of the events we remember are not particular events. Shows that episodic memories do not always reproduce memories of particular events, sometimes they generalize or summarize events. Condensing/combining: you store multiple memories of particular events and your memory condenses them into one fictitious event: like what john dean did to nixon during the water gate scandal. Schechtman said that both of these ideas do not reproduce or reconstruct individual experience but they are actually a biography of our life rather than a photo album. Implication 1: cognitive influences can thus shape our memories: people from t1 and t2 can exaggerate consistency. Implication 2: reciprocal influences: we construct narratives based on our environment. 2. 2- the narrative theory of personal identity episodic memories happened at discrete times.
