PSY325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Retrograde Amnesia, Trait Theory, Antireligion
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Lecture 3 notes organization function ii: self & memory. Autobiographical memory: a(cid:374) e(cid:454)pli(cid:272)it (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) of a(cid:374) e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t that o(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)ed i(cid:374) a spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) ti(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s personal past. They have several key features: explicit, declarative: you can tell them to other people, episodic and semantic: specific events or general knowledge, long-lasting, self-relevant: what defines autobiographical memory; personal, reconstructive: can be influenced by present goals/mood. Involves subjective experience (autonoetic): involves us reliving that specific event, being able to recall the sensory aspects. Autonoetic: consciousness is the human ability to mentally place ourselves in the past, in the future, or in counterfactual situations, and to analyze our own thoughts. Source monitoring errors: a type of memory error where the source of a memory is incorrectly. Autobiographical memories serve a number of functions: attributed to some specific recollected experience: directive: problem-solving, guidance of thoughts, feelings and actions.
