PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: List Of Torchwood Characters, Personality Test, Umber
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Rogers" experiment: participants asked to remember adjective and recall; they are better recall the adjective that related to themselves: the self-reference effect. There is a system in memory that specific about self. Depth of processing: certain information that process deeply -> easier to recall. We have evidence that existence of memory that process information about self - autobiographical memory. Autobiographical memory: an explicit memory of an event that occurred in a specific time and place in one"s personal past. Explicit and declarative - can be recall consciously. Lang-lasting (although adult find it hard to recall earlier. Reconstructive - in fragment and not identical to the event itself. Sigmund freud (1924/1953) : childhood amnesia/ infantile amnesia. How much of memory is retrieved from autobiological memory vs the information given by external sources (family, photo, etc. The inability to recall the memories in the very early in our life b4 age 2-3 age.